Synack is a relatively obscure ransomware group that first emerged in March 2021, operating with apparent financial motivations typical of cybercriminal ransomware operations. Based on limited public intelligence, the group appears to have primarily targeted organizations in India, with documented activity focusing on the information technology sector. Given the minimal documented victim count and limited public reporting from major threat intelligence firms and law enforcement agencies, Synack's attack methodology, technical capabilities, and operational structure remain largely undocumented in publicly available threat intelligence reports. The group has not been associated with any high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions, suggesting either a limited operational scope or successful operational security that has kept their activities below the radar of major security research organizations. Current intelligence indicates minimal recent activity, though without comprehensive public documentation, it remains unclear whether the group has ceased operations, rebranded, or simply maintained a low profile in the ransomware ecosystem. The group has been linked to 1 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2021. The operation is currently inactive.
Also tracked as: Syn Ack.
Sector and geography
This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Information Technology sector, which has 69 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) IT systems is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.
If your organisation is affected
A listing by Synack means Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) IT systems 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, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
- Monitor for the data appearing on Synack'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.
