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Kjla

Claimed by Global Secret Group · listed 2 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 21, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Global Secret Group
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Sep 21, 2026

What the group claims

Country: US | Website: kjla.com | Revenue: $6.7 Million | Industry: Broadcasting | Employees: 11–50 employees | Properties:: 783 GB (501,662 Files, 42,890 Folders)

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Country: US | Website: kjla.com | Revenue: $6.7 Million | Industry: Broadcasting | Employees: 11–50 employees | Properties:: 783 GB (501,662 Files, 42,890 Folders)
KJLA TV 57 is a television station affiliated with Azteca América, serving the Los Angeles area and licensed to Ventura, California. Owned by Costa de Oro Media, LLC, it broadcasts a variety of programming, including content from The Universal Church, and caters to a diverse audience with multiple channels featuring Vietnamese and Chinese programming. The station reaches approximately 2.8 million cable homes and 2 million DBS satellite homes in the region. KJLA's studios are located in West Los Angeles, with its transmitter situated atop Mount Wilson.
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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Global Secret Group

Global Secret Group is a ransomware threat actor first observed in July 2026, with operations consistent with financially motivated cybercrime based on their targeting profile and victim patterns. The group has claimed or been attributed to 28 known victims across a relatively short operational window, suggesting an emerging or actively expanding operation. Given the limited public documentation available from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time, a comprehensive technical profile cannot be fully established. What is known from available victim and targeting data indicates the group predominantly focuses on organizations in the United States, Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Cyprus, with a clear sectoral preference for Technology, Retail and E-Commerce, Energy and Utilities, Professional Services, and Financial Services — a targeting pattern broadly consistent with financially motivated ransomware actors seeking high-value data and organizations with both the ability and incentive to pay ransoms. The cross-sector and multi-national targeting pattern may suggest opportunistic intrusion methodology rather than a narrowly scoped, nation-state-aligned operation, though this assessment remains preliminary pending further public disclosure by authoritative sources. As of the time of this writing, Global Secret Group's operational infrastructure, affiliation with any ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem, specific malware tooling, and current active status have not been formally attributed or publicly documented by major threat intelligence authorities, and this profile will require revision as additional intelligence becomes available. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 26, 2026; most recent post September 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: GlobalSecretGroup.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 21, 2026Kjla listed by Global Secret Group on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Global Secret Group

Global Secret Group has been linked to 48 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Kjla is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Global Secret Group means Kjla 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 Global Secret Group'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.