Was SMAPCENTER-UAH.EDU hit by ransomware?

SMAPCENTER-UAH.EDU was listed by the clop ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the clop ransomware group?

clop is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the SMAPCENTER-UAH.EDU breach?

clop published data attributed to SMAPCENTER-UAH.EDU. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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SMAP Center at UAH

listed as SMAPCENTER-UAH.EDU · Claimed by Clop · listed 2 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Clop
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Sep 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SMAP Center is a research facility affiliated with the University of Alabama in Huntsville, located in Huntsville, Alabama. The center operates in defense contracting and research and development, likely serving government and defense sector clients.

Industry: Research & Development / Defense Contracting / Higher Education
Address: 200 Sparkman Drive NW, Suite 2, Huntsville, Alabama 35805, United States

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Educational/research institution with defense contracting links in US; data exfiltration claimed but no proof files advertised and data inventory is unspecified. Potential sensitivity due to defense research context, but lack of proof and specifics prevents higher rating.

Clop group claims to have attacked SMAPCENTER-UAH.EDU and exfiltrated data. The group alleges the company ignored security concerns; however, no specific details on data types or operational disruption are provided in the post.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

. 200 Sparkman Drive NW, Suite 2, Huntsville, Alabama, 35805, United States +1 (256) 840-7836 smapcenter.uah.edu Research & Development / Defense Contracting / Higher Education 
The company doesn't care about its customers, it ignored their security!!!

Sources

Victim siteSMAPCENTER-UAH.EDU
Leak posthttp://santat7kpllt6iyvqbr7q4amdv6dzrh6paatvyrzl7ry3zm72zigf4ad.onion/smapcenter-uah-edu

Source

Indexed 2 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About clop

Clop (also stylized as "Cl0p") is a financially motivated ransomware group and cybercriminal enterprise that emerged in early 2020 as an evolution of the earlier CryptoMix ransomware family, operating primarily for monetary extortion against large enterprise targets. The group is widely assessed by Mandiant, CISA, and other reputable researchers to have ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminal actors, with some researchers linking their operations to the broader FIN11 threat cluster; they operate a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model while also conducting direct intrusion operations. Clop is particularly distinguished for its aggressive exploitation of zero-day and n-day vulnerabilities in managed file transfer (MFT) and enterprise software platforms as primary initial access vectors, most notably the exploitation of Accellion FTA (2020-2021), Fortra GoAnywhere MFT (CVE-2023-0669), and the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability (CVE-2023-34362) in 2023, and consistently employs double extortion tactics — exfiltrating sensitive data prior to or in lieu of encryption and threatening public disclosure on their dedicated leak site to coerce payment. Clop has been responsible for some of the most impactful ransomware campaigns on record, with their 2023 MOVEit exploitation campaign alone affecting over 1,000 organizations globally and impacting entities including Shell, the U.S. Department of Energy, British Airways, and numerous U.S. federal agencies, with the broader campaign representing one of the largest mass-exploitation events in ransomware history; Ukrainian law enforcement arrested six individuals linked to Clop operations in June 2021, though the group's core leadership is assessed to remain outside of effective law enforcement jurisdiction. As of the most recent publicly available intelligence, Clop remains active, continuing to leverage vulnerability exploitation campaigns against enterprise file transfer solutions and maintaining a victim count exceeding 1,250 known organizations, with consistent targeting concentrated in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany across technology, business services, manufacturing, and consumer services sectors. The group has been linked to 1,375 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 13, 2020; most recent post September 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Cl0p.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 23, 2026SMAPCENTER-UAH.EDU listed by clop on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by clop

clop has been linked to 1,375 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,087 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, SMAPCENTER-UAH.EDU is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by clop means SMAPCENTER-UAH.EDU 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 clop'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.