Disclosure context

About Termite

Termite is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in November 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of primarily Western nations including the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada suggests a non-Western operational base. With 39 documented victims across healthcare, telecommunications, business services, and technology sectors within just a few months of operation, Termite demonstrates an aggressive deployment strategy, though specific details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by established security research organizations. The group's relatively recent emergence means that notable high-profile campaigns and specific technical indicators have not yet been extensively analyzed or reported by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. Termite appears to remain active as of early 2025, though the limited public documentation suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation or have not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 43 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 17, 2024; most recent post May 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 7, 2026City of Huntington listed by Termiteon the group's public leak site

Data size: 300 GB
Records: 000 files

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 259 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, City of Huntington 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.

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City of Huntington

Claimed by Termite · listed 3 months ago

300 GB

Data size

000 files records

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 7, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Termite
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Mar 7, 2026
Data size: 300 GB
Records: 000 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The City of Huntington is a municipal government entity founded in 1871, located in Huntington, West Virginia, serving as the county seat of Cabell County and extending into Wayne County. The city provides a full range of public services including police, fire, public works, finance, planning and zoning, inspections, and utilities. It is the largest city in West Virginia by population in its metropolitan area.

Industry: Municipal Government
Address: 800 Fifth Avenue, Huntington, WV 25701
Founded: 1871

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a municipal government entity whose systems likely contain PII at scale (resident records, tax data, employee data, public safety information), regulated financial data, and sensitive law enforcement records. Data has been confirmed published (data_published status), making this a critical disclosure.

The Termite ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from the City of Huntington, with the disclosed status indicating data has been published. The post advertises access to stolen data via a Tor-hosted leak site, with no ransom amount stated.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Municipal government records
Financial documents
Employee/personnel data
Permit and licensing records
Planning and zoning documents
Public safety records
Resident/taxpayer information

The group's post references roughly 4 proof files.

What the group claims

Founded in 1871, the City of Huntington is located in western West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County and also stretches into Wayne County.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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