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Medicalfile

listed as Medical File · Claimed by Killsec · listed 1 year ago

16m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 20, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Killsec
Status
Data leaked
Country
Mexico
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Feb 20, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Medicalfile is a Mexican healthcare software company offering an electronic medical record (EMR) system designed for physicians and clinics. The platform enables voice-to-text clinical documentation, unlimited document/image storage, and patient management via web and mobile (online/offline modes). Founded in 2015, the company operates primarily in Mexico.

Industry
Healthcare IT / Electronic Medical Records
Founded
2015

Attack summary

Severity: high — EMR platform serving healthcare providers in Mexico; exfiltration of medical records and patient clinical data constitutes confirmed exposure of sensitive regulated health information (HIPAA-equivalent concern). Scale and specific proof details unknown but the nature of the asset is inherently high-risk.

The killsec group claims to have accessed and published data from Medicalfile. The post references 'El expediente clínico más innovador del mercado' (the most innovative clinical record on the market), suggesting exfiltration of clinical or business data from the platform.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Electronic medical records
  • Patient clinical data
  • Clinical documentation
  • Patient images/documents

What the group claims

El expediente clínico más innovador del mercado

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About killsec

killsec is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating broad targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry sectors. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests opportunistic rather than geopolitically motivated operations. With 276 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Belgium, killsec appears to focus heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and financial sectors, indicating either specific tooling designed for these environments or opportunistic targeting of organizations with valuable data and high pressure to restore operations quickly. Given the group's recent emergence and the lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity firms like Mandiant or law enforcement advisories from CISA or FBI, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been publicly documented in authoritative sources. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited intelligence profile suggests they may be either a smaller operation or one that has not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations despite their substantial victim count. The group has been linked to 281 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2024; most recent post June 3, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 20, 2025Medical File listed by killsecon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by killsec

killsec has been linked to 281 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full killsec dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Medical File is reported in Mexico, a country with 196 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by killsec means Medical File appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-MX (Mexico), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on killsec's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.