Disclosure context

About Redalert

Redalert is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in July 2022 with primarily financial motivations, operating on a smaller scale compared to major ransomware families. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available from major security organizations regarding their operational structure or whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on available data, Redalert has demonstrated a geographic focus on Western European targets, particularly concentrating their operations against entities in the United Kingdom and France, though their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public security research. With only six known victims since their emergence, the group represents a minor player in the ransomware ecosystem, and their limited operational footprint suggests they may lack the sophistication and resources of more prominent ransomware operations. Current intelligence indicates minimal ongoing activity from this group, though definitive information about their operational status, potential disruption, or dissolution is not available in public reporting from major cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 6 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 14, 2022; most recent post September 22, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Red Alert.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 22, 2022www.bbadmin.com listed by Redalerton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.bbadmin.com is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Bay Bridge Administrators

listed as www.bbadmin.com · Claimed by Redalert · listed 4 years ago

44m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 22, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Redalert
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 22, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bay Bridge Administrators, LLC is a full-service, nationally recognized third-party administrator of fully-insured employee benefit plans based in the United States. The company is licensed and bonded, representing top-rated insurance companies, and serves independent insurance agents and brokers, public and private employers, and employee/policyholders. Its senior management team holds over 90 years of combined experience in benefits and risk management.

Industry: Third-Party Benefits Administration
Founded: 2003

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Bay Bridge Administrators is a third-party administrator of employee benefit plans subject to HIPAA, meaning its data holdings almost certainly include regulated health and personal information (PII, PHI) for policyholders and employers at scale. A data_published status from the threat actor indicates exfiltration and release of this sensitive regulated data.

The Redalert ransomware group has listed Bay Bridge Administrators as a victim with a disclosed status of data_published; no leak post content was captured, so specific claims regarding encryption, exfiltration, or the nature of data published cannot be independently verified from the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee benefit plan records
Policyholder personal information
Employer plan data
Insurance company agreements
HIPAA-covered health information

Sources

Victim sitebbadmin.com

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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