Disclosure context

About morpheus

Morpheus is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in January 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a targeted approach to victim selection across multiple geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may be operating independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. With 14 documented victims across diverse sectors including healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and hospitality, Morpheus has shown a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Spain, India, Mexico, and Belgium, indicating either a broad operational reach or the use of automated targeting mechanisms that transcend geographic boundaries. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics, techniques, and procedures remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting from major cybersecurity firms and government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence available from established sources such as CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers, notable campaigns and high-profile incidents have not yet been extensively documented or analyzed in the public domain. Morpheus appears to remain active as of early 2025, though comprehensive assessment of their current operational status is limited by the nascent nature of their observed activities and the lack of extensive public reporting on their operations. The group has been linked to 17 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 7, 2025; most recent post May 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 27, 2026SURTECHINC listed by morpheuson the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $5M

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, SURTECHINC is reported in South Korea, a country with 32 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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Surtech Inc.

listed as SURTECHINC · Claimed by morpheus · listed 3 months ago

$5M

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: morpheus
Status: Data leaked
Country: South Korea
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Feb 27, 2026
Ransom demanded: $5M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Surtech Inc. (surtechinc.kr) is a South Korean company operating in the industrial plating sector. The company positions itself as a leader in the plating industry, offering high-quality surface treatment services backed by accumulated technical experience. Its scale and precise location within South Korea are not confirmed from available sources.

Industry: Industrial Surface Treatment & Plating

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor (data_published status), confirming exfiltration of business data from the victim. While no regulated PII at scale is explicitly confirmed, the publication of exfiltrated data from an industrial company and a $5M ransom demand indicate significant operational and data impact.

The Morpheus ransomware group claims to have attacked Surtech Inc. and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of company data; the ransom demand is stated at $5 million.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
Potentially proprietary technical/process data

What the group claims

**Website**: surtechinc.kr **Revenue**: $5 Million Company is a leader in the plating industry, leveraging our accumulated experience and technological prowess to provide the highest quality and ser

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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