Disclosure context

About Quantum

Quantum is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on high-value targets across English-speaking nations. The group's geographic targeting patterns and operational characteristics suggest possible connections to established ransomware ecosystems, though specific attribution or confirmed affiliations with other threat actors remain undocumented in public reporting. Quantum operators typically employ double extortion tactics, combining data encryption with the threat of public data exposure to maximize pressure on victims, and their campaigns have consistently targeted sectors with critical operational dependencies including business services, manufacturing, and information technology infrastructure. The group has maintained a relatively low public profile compared to other major ransomware operations, with their 68 documented victims representing a more selective approach to target acquisition rather than broad-scale campaigns. Despite limited public law enforcement reporting specifically focused on Quantum operations, the group's continued activity pattern suggests they remain an active threat as of recent observations, though comprehensive operational details remain scarce in publicly available threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post January 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: QuantumLocker, Mount Locker, DagonLocker.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 8, 2022Freyr Solutions listed by Quantumon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Information Technology sector, which has 71 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Freyr Solutions 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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Freyr Solutions

Claimed by Quantum · listed 4 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Aug 8, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Quantum
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Information Technology
Listed on leak site: Aug 8, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Freyr Solutions is a global regulatory-focused solutions and services company serving the Life Sciences industry, including pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology, and consumer healthcare sectors. The company supports clients across the full regulatory value chain, from regulatory strategy and intelligence to dossier preparation, submissions, labeling, and post-approval product maintenance. It serves large, medium, and small Life Sciences companies worldwide.

Industry: Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Services – Life Sciences
Employees: 1001-5000

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Freyr Solutions handles highly sensitive regulated data for pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology clients globally. Exfiltration and publication of regulatory dossiers, submissions, and product data constitutes a critical breach of regulated/sensitive business and potentially patient-safety-related information affecting numerous Life Sciences companies worldwide.

The Quantum ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Freyr Solutions and has published the data. The disclosed status indicates data has been published, though specific file counts or data volumes were not stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Regulatory strategy documents
Regulatory dossiers and submissions
Post-approval product maintenance records
Labeling and artwork change management files
Client Life Sciences company data
Internal business documents

What the group claims

Freyr is one of the largest, global, Regulatory-focused solutions and services companies for the Life Sciences industry supporting, Large, Medium, and Small size global Life sciences companies (Pharmaceutical | Generics | Medical Device | Biotechnology | Biosimilar | Consumer Healthcare | Cosmetics | Food and Food Supplements | Chemicals) in their entire Regulatory value-chain; ranging from Regulatory Strategy, Intelligence, Dossiers, Submissions, etc. to Post-approval/Legacy Product Maintenance, Labeling, Artwork Change Management, and other related functions

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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