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Akantha

Claimed by Blacklock · listed 1 year ago

25 Employees
Records
$5M
Ransom
demanded
14m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 16, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blacklock
Status
Data leaked
Country
Greece
Listed on leak site
May 16, 2025
Records
25 Employees
Ransom demanded
$5M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Akantha is a French software company with fewer than 25 employees that develops Portalis, a legal practice management solution tailored for law firms. The platform provides document management, case tracking dashboards, and secure data hosting within France, and is marketed to French legal professionals at bar association events.

Industry
Legal Software & Services
Employees
<25

Attack summary

Severity: high — Legal practice management software typically handles sensitive client data, attorney-client privileged communications, and confidential case information. Compromise of such data poses significant risk to client privacy and attorney-client privilege, even without explicit confirmation of specific data types in this excerpt.

The BlackLock group claims to have compromised Akantha and exfiltrated data from the company. The specific nature of the compromise (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and the exact data categories at stake are not detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • client case files
  • legal documents
  • firm confidential data

What the group claims

Software · France · <25 Employees Akantha offers Portalis, a legal software tailored for lawyers. The solution provides intuitive dashboards for each function, allowing easy management of law firms. Features include a 360-degree view, automatic update dashboards, secure document sharing, and data hosting in France. Akantha presents Portalis at various Barreau events, showcasing its tools for legal procedure management. Revenue <$5 Million

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About blacklock

Based on the limited publicly available information, Blacklock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in May 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations targeting organizations across multiple countries and sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear from documented sources, and there is insufficient public reporting to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. With 64 documented victims since their emergence, Blacklock has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across the United States, Canada, Spain, India, and the United Kingdom, with particular focus on technology, construction, manufacturing, and consumer services sectors, though their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption tactics have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting from established threat intelligence sources, notable campaigns and specific technical details of their operations remain largely undocumented in publicly available security research. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active given their recent emergence date, though comprehensive analysis of their operational status requires additional documentation from established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 64 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 16, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 16, 2025Akantha listed by blacklockon the group's public leak site
Records
25 Employees
Ransom demanded
$5M

Other recent disclosures by blacklock

blacklock has been linked to 64 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full blacklock dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Akantha is reported in Greece, a country with 3 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacklock means Akantha 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on blacklock'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.