Disclosure context

About Blackbyte

BlackByte is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that emerged in October 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group is suspected to operate from Russia or former Soviet states based on their use of Russian-language forums and avoidance of targeting organizations in Commonwealth of Independent States countries, though they maintain no confirmed links to other established ransomware families. BlackByte operators typically gain initial access through vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of remote desktop protocol (RDP) services, employing tools such as Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and data exfiltration before deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses AES-256 encryption with RSA-2048 key protection. The group has demonstrated particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors, with the FBI and CISA issuing joint advisories in February 2022 highlighting attacks against organizations in government, healthcare, manufacturing, and education sectors, including notable incidents affecting San Francisco's transportation authority and multiple healthcare systems across the United States. BlackByte remains active as of 2024, continuing to evolve their tactics and maintain their leak site for publishing stolen data from victims who refuse to pay ransoms. The group has been linked to 147 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 4, 2021; most recent post July 30, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 30, 2025DARA Pharma listed by Blackbyteon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, DARA Pharma is reported in Spain, a country with 212 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.

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DARA Pharma

Claimed by Blackbyte · listed 10 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jul 30, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Blackbyte
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Jul 30, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

DARA Pharma designs, develops, and manufactures specialized packaging equipment for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and cosmetics industries. The company produces washing, sterilizing, filling, freeze-drying, and closing machines for vials, bottles, syringes, cartridges, and IV bags. They operate globally with a network of agents and provide complete production lines and after-market services.

Industry: Pharmaceutical Machinery & Equipment Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group (disclosed status confirmed), but the leak post provides no details on data volume, sensitivity, or type. No proof files are advertised. The target is a B2B equipment manufacturer rather than a holder of large-scale PII or regulated healthcare data, though compromised technical documentation or customer lists could have moderate business impact.

Blackbyte claims to have compromised DARA Pharma and published data. The leak post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both were deployed, nor does it detail the specific data categories targeted.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business operations data
Technical documentation
Customer information
Product specifications

What the group claims

Dara Pharmaceutical designs, develops, and manufactures packaging equipment for washing, sterilizing, filling, freeze-drying, and closing machines for vials, bottles, syringes, cartridges, and IV Bags to process liquid, semi-solid products, and powders in sterile conditions.

Sources

Victim sitewww.dara-pharma.com

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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