Disclosure context

About secpo

SecPo is a ransomware group that first emerged in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their limited documented activity. With only four known victims primarily concentrated in Canada, the group appears to target business services and manufacturing sectors, though their small operational footprint suggests they may be a nascent or highly selective threat actor. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation, details regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or ransomware-as-a-service model remain unclear to security researchers. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tools have not been extensively documented by major security firms, likely due to their limited scope of operations and recent timeline of activity. No major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported for this group, which aligns with their apparently small-scale operations. Given their recent emergence in 2026, SecPo's current operational status and long-term capabilities remain to be determined as security researchers continue to monitor their activities. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 14, 2026; most recent post April 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 29, 2026Color Communications LLC listed by secpoon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunication sector, which has 54 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Color Communications LLC 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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Color Communications LLC

Claimed by secpo · listed 21 days ago

21d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 29, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: secpo
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Telecommunication
Listed on leak site: Apr 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Color Communications LLC (CCI) develops, manufactures, and delivers color marketing tools and specialty coating products — including color chips, color cards, and fan decks — primarily serving the global paint and coatings industry. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, CCI serves leading paint companies worldwide and operates with branches in Australasia and Europe. The company is noted for its patented water-based paint technology and a 99% first-time color-approval rate.

Industry: Color Marketing Materials & Specialty Coatings Manufacturing
Address: 4000 West Fillmore Street, Chicago, Illinois 60624, USA

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of data at significant scale, including PII on thousands of individuals and sensitive records on thousands of organizations, meeting the threshold for critical disclosure of regulated/sensitive data.

The group 'secpo' claims to have exfiltrated a dataset comprising over 200,000 unique files containing sensitive information on more than 4,500 individuals and over 5,500 organizations, with the data now published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

PII on 4,500+ individuals
Records on 5,500+ organizations
200,000+ unique files

What the group claims

The exposed dataset includes over 200,000 unique files containing sensitive information on more than 4,500 individuals and over 5,500 organizations...

Sources

Victim siteccicolor.com
Leak posthttp://secponewsxgrlnirowclps2kllzaotaf5w2bsvktdnz4qhjr2jnwvvyd.onion/post/94f588080358146b/index.html

Source

Indexed 21 days ago

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