Disclosure context

About nightspire

Nightspire is a ransomware group that first emerged in March 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having targeted over 215 victims in a relatively short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Nightspire appears to employ common ransomware attack vectors targeting organizations across multiple sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and construction industries, while demonstrating a geographic preference for victims in the United States, India, Taiwan, France, and Hong Kong. The group's rapid victim acquisition rate since their March 2025 emergence suggests an active and potentially effective operational capability, though specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, or extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited public reporting from established cybersecurity organizations like CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, Nightspire remains an active threat with insufficient public documentation to fully assess their operational sophistication or organizational structure. The group has been linked to 265 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 12, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 3, 2026Southeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists listed by nightspireon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Southeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is reported in US, a country with 2,713 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Southeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Claimed by nightspire · listed 2 months ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 3, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: nightspire
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Apr 3, 2026

About the victim

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The Southeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (SECSDA) is a regional administrative body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church operating in the southeastern United States. It oversees local churches, schools, and ministries, providing resources, events, and community services to its member congregations. The organization supports a range of programs including disaster response, disability inclusion, and Christian stewardship.

Industry: Religious Organization & Ministry

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Disclosure status is marked as data_published, suggesting some data was released, but the leak post content is unavailable and no data size, proof files, or specifics about exfiltrated data are provided. A religious/community organization of this type likely holds member PII and financial donation records, warranting at least medium severity, but the lack of any confirmable details prevents a higher rating.

The ransomware group Nightspire claims to have attacked the Southeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and the disclosure status is listed as data_published; however, the leak post content is unavailable, leaving the nature and extent of any exfiltration or encryption unconfirmed from the post itself.

medium

What the group claims

Data is not available now.

Sources

Victim sitewww.secsda.org

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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