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Brother Israel (Reshef)

listed as brother.co.il · Claimed by Toufan · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 17, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Toufan
Status
Data leaked
Country
Israel
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Dec 17, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Brother Israel, operated under the Reshef brand, is the official Israeli distributor of Brother Industries products, including printers, scanners, label printers, fax machines, and related consumables. The company serves both office and enterprise markets across Israel, offering business printing solutions, mobile printing, and document scanning products. The website has been active since at least 1995.

Industry
Printing & Imaging Equipment Distribution
Founded
1995

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published by the group, suggesting some level of exfiltration and disclosure. However, no leak post content, data volume, or specific data types are described, and the victim is a regional technology distributor without obvious critical-infrastructure status, limiting severity assessment.

The Toufan ransomware group claims to have attacked brother.co.il and lists the disclosure status as 'data_published', indicating data exfiltration and/or publication. No specific details about the nature of the attack or the volume of data are provided in the captured leak post.

medium

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About toufan

Toufan is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a preference for targeting victims across Israel, Canada, Singapore, Australia, and Great Britain. The group has claimed responsibility for compromising 117 victims since its emergence, though detailed public documentation from major threat intelligence firms regarding their specific origin, country of operation, or organizational structure remains limited. Given the recent emergence of this group and the geographic distribution of their targeting, comprehensive technical analysis of their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and initial access vectors has not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from established security research organizations. The group's targeting pattern suggests a focus on English-speaking countries and Israel, though the specific sectors or victim profiles they prioritize, along with details about ransom demands or notable high-profile compromises, have not been widely reported in mainstream cybersecurity intelligence channels. As a recently emerged threat actor first observed in late 2023, Toufan appears to remain active based on the accumulation of claimed victims, though comprehensive assessment of their current operational status requires further monitoring and analysis by established threat intelligence communities. The group has been linked to 117 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 17, 2023; most recent post December 27, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 17, 2023brother.co.il listed by toufanon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by toufan

toufan has been linked to 117 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full toufan dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, brother.co.il is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by toufan means brother.co.il 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, CERT-IL (Israel), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on toufan'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.