Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 87 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 9, 2026Siegel Lewitter Malkani listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Siegel Lewitter Malkani is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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Siegel Lewitter Malkani

Claimed by pear · listed 1 month ago

41d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 9, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: pear
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Siegel LeWitter Malkani is a plaintiffs-side employment and labor law firm headquartered in Oakland, California, where it has operated since 1998. The firm represents employees and labor organizations in individual and class action employment litigation, including wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and wage-and-hour cases. It has three named partners and three associates, and has been recognized as one of the top ten plaintiffs-side employment law practices in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Industry: Employment & Labor Law
Address: Oakland, California, USA
Employees: 11-50

Attack summary

Severity: critical — This is an employment law firm whose files almost certainly contain sensitive PII, attorney-client privileged communications, confidential employee records, and potentially medical and financial information pertaining to hundreds or thousands of clients. Data has been published (confirmed exfiltration), making exposure of regulated and highly sensitive personal data at scale highly probable.

The ransomware group 'pear' claims to have attacked Siegel LeWitter Malkani, with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client legal files
Employee personal information
Case records and litigation documents
Attorney-client communications
Financial records

What the group claims

A highly respected law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in employment law

Sources

Victim sitesl-employmentlaw.com
Leak posthttp://pearsmob5sn44ismokiusuld34pnfwi6ctgin3qbvonpoob4lh3rmtqd.onion/Companies/sl-employmentlaw

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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