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Busse & Busee, PC Attorneys at Law

Claimed by ALPHV/BlackCat · listed 2 years ago

30m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 19, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Jan 19, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Busse & Busse, P.C. is a law firm established in 1990 specializing in cost-effective legal representation for the insurance industry. The firm serves both insurance carriers and self-insured entities, handling litigation and related matters with a stated average resolution time under 12 months.

Industry
Legal Services – Insurance Law
Founded
1990

Attack summary

Severity: high — Law firms hold sensitive client data including case information, financial records, and potentially privileged communications. Exfiltration and publication of such material exposes both the firm's clients and business operations, regardless of whether encryption was also deployed. Regulated data (insurance, legal privilege) is at stake.

ALPHV/BlackCat claims to have exfiltrated data from Busse & Busse, P.C. and published it. The group warns potential clients against contacting the firm, implying reputational damage through disclosure of unspecified 'deeds and data.'

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client records
  • Case files
  • Legal documents
  • Attorney work product

What the group claims

At Busse & Busse, P.C., your deeds and data will be leaked. Consider carefully before reaching out to this law firm.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ALPHV/BlackCat

ALPHV, also known as BlackCat or Noberus, is a sophisticated ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in November 2021 and quickly became one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally, driven by financial motivations and responsible for compromising over 930 victims worldwide. The group is believed to be operated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals and represents an evolution of the BlackMatter ransomware operation, operating under a RaaS model that recruits experienced affiliates from other disbanded ransomware groups. ALPHV employs a multi-faceted attack methodology utilizing various initial access vectors including compromised Remote Desktop Protocol credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, followed by deployment of their Rust-based ransomware payload that supports both Windows and Linux environments, while consistently employing double extortion tactics that involve data theft prior to encryption and threats to publish stolen information on their leak site. Notable campaigns include high-profile attacks against critical infrastructure and major corporations across healthcare, finance, and energy sectors, with the group demanding ransoms ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, prompting the FBI and CISA to issue multiple advisories warning of their targeting of critical infrastructure organizations. As of early 2024, ALPHV remains active despite ongoing law enforcement efforts, continuing to evolve their tactics and maintain their position as one of the most significant ransomware threats globally. The group has been linked to 1,662 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post March 3, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: ALPHV, BlackCat, Noberus.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 19, 2024Busse & Busee, PC Attorneys at Law listed by ALPHV/BlackCaton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Busse & Busee, PC Attorneys at Law is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ALPHV/BlackCat means Busse & Busee, PC Attorneys at Law 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 ALPHV/BlackCat'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.