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Advantage CDC

Claimed by Genesis · listed 9 months ago

8m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 28, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Genesis
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Oct 28, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Advantage CDC is a private not-for-profit corporation licensed and certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide low-cost, long-term SBA loans to eligible small businesses in California. The organization specializes in long-term, fixed-rate, low down payment commercial real estate loans. It operates as a Certified Development Company (CDC) under the SBA 504 loan program.

Industry
SBA Lending & Small Business Finance

Attack summary

Severity: high — Advantage CDC handles SBA loan applications and commercial real estate financing, meaning compromised data likely includes sensitive financial PII of small business owners and borrowers. The status is data_published, indicating actual data release rather than a mere listing.

The Genesis ransomware group has listed Advantage CDC under a data_published disclosure, indicating data has been published or made available. The leak post is a multi-victim listing page; no specific data volume or exfiltration details are described for Advantage CDC individually.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • SBA loan records
  • Small business financial documents
  • Borrower PII
  • Internal business correspondence

What the group claims

A company that provides long-term loans

The leak post

captured from the group's site
A global leader in the provision of Marine Claims TPA and Recovery services.
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A law firm from Tacoma, WA.
[Ben F. Barcus and associates pllc](http://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/72daf8151f038f9399f8/)
Conducting training sessions, engaging with stakeholders, and organizing meetings and events.
A civil engineering and surveying firm located at 570 Congress Park Dr, Dayton, Ohio.
A legal firm dedicated to safeguard the rights of its clients
## The American Board of Preventive Medicine
[The American Board of Preventive Medicine](http://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/5fbef11c89ddb34c6e90/)
## Integrated Process Engineers & Constructors.
Specializes in custom modular process systems, offering a wide range of products including bioreactors, filtration systems, and utility stations.
[Integrated Process Engineers & Constructors.](http://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/6ada59560a7932d5b3df/)
## Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber
[Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber](http://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/824f0a1581059760e9d3/)
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Sources

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About genesis

Genesis is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in October 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated a relatively aggressive operational tempo since emergence, accumulating 54 documented victims within a short timeframe. Given the limited public documentation available from established threat intelligence sources regarding this newly identified group, specific details about their country of origin, organizational structure, and precise attack methodologies remain under investigation by security researchers. The group's targeting patterns indicate a preference for victims in the United States and United Kingdom, with additional activity observed in Malaysia and Spain, suggesting either a broad operational scope or the use of automated targeting tools that do not discriminate by geography. Their sector targeting reveals a focus on healthcare, manufacturing, business services, and financial services organizations, indicating they may prioritize entities with both high revenue potential and critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited reporting from major threat intelligence organizations such as Mandiant, CISA, or FBI, comprehensive details regarding their specific encryption methods, initial access vectors, data exfiltration practices, or notable high-profile campaigns have not yet been publicly documented. Genesis remains an active threat as of current reporting, though their operational longevity and potential connections to established ransomware ecosystems continue to be assessed by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 107 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 21, 2025; most recent post July 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 28, 2025Advantage CDC listed by genesison the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by genesis

genesis has been linked to 107 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full genesis dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Advantage CDC is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by genesis means Advantage CDC 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 genesis'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.