Was BHMAC hit by ransomware?

BHMAC was listed by the Arcusmedia ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Arcusmedia ransomware group?

Arcusmedia is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the BHMAC breach?

Arcusmedia published data attributed to BHMAC. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Center

listed as BHMAC · Claimed by Arcusmedia · listed 2 years ago

25m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 4, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Arcusmedia
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Jun 4, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

BHMAC (Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Center) is a government institution responsible for landmine clearance, demining operations, and mine-risk education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It coordinates international partnerships, manages demining strategies, and maintains databases of mine-affected areas.

Industry: Government & Public Administration - Humanitarian Demining
Address: Kasindolska 192, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Target is a government humanitarian organization with access to sensitive mine-mapping and demining data; however, the leak post is truncated with no clear proof of exfiltration or specific data inventory disclosed. Confirmed compromise of a state institution warrants medium severity pending further evidence.

The group claims to have compromised BHMAC's systems; the leak post provided is truncated and does not detail specific data exfiltration or encryption claims.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Mine action databases
Organizational records
Government communications
Project documentation

What the group claims

Bhmac is a company that operates...

Sources

Victim sitebhmac.org
Leak posthttp://arcuufpr5xxbbkin4mlidt7itmr6znlppk63jbtkeguuhszmc5g7qdyd.onion/?p=143

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Arcusmedia

Arcusmedia is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in May 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple countries and sectors. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear given limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting of victims across Brazil, the United States, Spain, UAE, and Mexico suggests either a geographically distributed operation or deliberate international scope. With 98 documented victims in a short operational timeframe, Arcusmedia has demonstrated notable activity levels, primarily focusing on technology, business services, agriculture and food production, and transportation/logistics sectors, though their targeting appears opportunistic rather than strategically focused given the "Not Found" classification as their primary sector target. Limited public reporting from major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies means specific details about their attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or whether they employ double extortion tactics remain undocumented in authoritative sources. No major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant law enforcement actions against Arcusmedia have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence organizations. Current operational status appears active based on the recent emergence timeframe, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from reputable sources have not yet been published given the group's recent appearance in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 105 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 15, 2024; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: arcus media.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 4, 2024BHMAC listed by Arcusmediaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Arcusmedia

Arcusmedia has been linked to 105 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, BHMAC is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Arcusmedia means BHMAC 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Arcusmedia'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.