Was awimc.com hit by ransomware?

awimc.com was listed by the Cactus 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 Cactus ransomware group?

Cactus 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 awimc.com breach?

Cactus published data attributed to awimc.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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AWI Management Corporation

listed as awimc.com · Claimed by Cactus · listed 2 years ago

$102.7M

Ransom

demanded

18m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 23, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Cactus
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Dec 23, 2024
Ransom demanded: $102.7M
Estimated revenue: $102.7M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AWI Management Corporation is a property management firm specializing in affordable housing across California, Arizona, and Hawaii. Founded in 2007, the company manages 217 properties comprising 11,000 units for institutional owners, nonprofits, and family offices, serving approximately 25,000 residents.

Industry: Affordable Housing Property Management
Address: 120 Center St, Auburn, California 95603, United States
Founded: 2007

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of large-scale PII including tenant and employee personal data, driver's licenses, and financial documents for a company managing 11,000 residential units and 25,000 residents. Exposure of tenant and employee personal information at this scale constitutes regulated sensitive data.

Cactus claims to have exfiltrated personal identifiable information of employees and tenants, financial documents, executive and employee personal data, customer information, and corporate confidential correspondence. The group has published proof files and provided onion links to the data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personal identifiable information (employees)
Personal identifiable information (tenants)
Financial documents
Executive personal data
Employee personal data
Customer personal information
Corporate confidential correspondence
Driver's licenses

The group's post references roughly 5 proof files.

What the group claims

Real Estate. “AWI Management Corporation is a highly experienced property management firm specializing in providing property management services for owners and developers of affordable housing. AWI is dedicated to providing its clients with exceptional service and experienced representation with an emphasis on integrity, dependability and competence.” Website: <a href="https://www.awimc.com/">https://www.awimc.com/</a> Revenue : $102.7M Address: 120 Center St At, Auburn, California, 95603, United States Phone Number: (530) 745-6170 Download link #1:  <a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/AWIMC/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/AWIMC/PROOF/</a> Mirror: <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/AWIMC/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/AWIMC/PROOF/</a> DATA DESCRIPTIONS: Personal Identifiable Information (both employees and tenants), financial documents, executives and employees personal data, customer personal information, corporate confidential data and correspondence, etc.<img src="/uploads/Viscaya_104_B_2022_CYC_511ad07183.png" alt="Viscaya 104B 2022 CYC.png"><img src="/uploads/205_2_A_Olivia_Nunez_1st_year_1_e281462669.png" alt="205-2A Olivia Nunez 1st year (1).png"><img src="/uploads/M_Burke_drivers_license_2b1616965e.png" alt="M.Burke drivers license.png"><img src="/uploads/T_Williams_drivers_license_066490993e.png" alt="T.Williams drivers license.png"><img src="/uploads/De_Leon_Itzel_13e0a36d02.png" alt="De Leon, Itzel.png">

Sources

Victim siteawimc.com
Leak posthttps://cactusbloguuodvqjmnzlwetjlpj6aggc6iocwhuupb47laukux7ckid.onion/posts/post

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Cactus

**Overview:** Cactus is a ransomware group that emerged in July 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid expansion, compromising 552 known victims within its first year of operation. **Origin & Affiliation:** Limited public information exists regarding Cactus's country of origin or specific affiliations with other ransomware groups, though their targeting patterns and operational methods suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. **Attack Methodology:** Cactus ransomware operators employ double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting victim systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met. The group appears to focus on gaining initial access through common vectors such as compromised credentials and vulnerable internet-facing applications, followed by lateral movement and data exfiltration prior to deployment of their encryption payload. **Notable Campaigns:** While specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented by major security agencies, the group's victim count of 552 organizations within approximately one year indicates sustained and aggressive targeting campaigns across North America and Europe. Their focus on manufacturing and business services sectors suggests deliberate targeting of organizations likely to pay ransoms due to operational dependencies. **Current Status:** Cactus remains an active ransomware threat as of late 2024, continuing to target organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and European countries with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed dissolution of their operations. The group has been linked to 552 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 20, 2023; most recent post March 21, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 23, 2024awimc.com listed by Cactuson the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $102.7M

Other recent disclosures by Cactus

Cactus has been linked to 552 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, awimc.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Cactus means awimc.com 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 Cactus'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.