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McCague Borlack

Claimed by SilentRansomGroup · listed 1 year ago

14m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 6, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
SilentRansomGroup
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
May 6, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

McCague Borlack LLP is a full-service litigation law firm founded in 1994 with offices across Ontario (Toronto, Ottawa, Kitchener, London, Barrie). The firm specializes in insurance defence work and insurance coverage litigation, serving national and international insurance companies, corporate entities, and individuals across Canada and North America.

Industry
Litigation Law & Insurance Defence
Address
Toronto, Ottawa, Kitchener, London and Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Founded
1994

Attack summary

Severity: high — Law firm handling sensitive client matters including insurance disputes, litigation, and commercial transactions. Likely exposure of privileged attorney-client communications, client financial information, and case strategy—all regulated and highly sensitive. Data published status confirms exfiltration occurred.

SilentRansomGroup claims to have attacked McCague Borlack and published data. No specific details are provided in the truncated leak post regarding encryption, exfiltration, or data types.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • client records
  • case files
  • legal documents
  • business communications

What the group claims

Founded in 1994, McCague Borlack full service legal advice. Its practice areas include: accident benef…

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About SilentRansomGroup

Based on the limited available information, SilentRansomGroup is a relatively new ransomware operation that first emerged in May 2025, appearing to be financially motivated given their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their diverse geographic targeting including the United States, Germany, Canada, and Russia suggests either a sophisticated operation or potential ransomware-as-a-service model. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security researchers, though their targeting of business services, financial services, hospitality, and manufacturing sectors indicates they likely focus on organizations with both valuable data and ability to pay significant ransoms. With 93 known victims across multiple countries and sectors in a relatively short timeframe since May 2025, SilentRansomGroup has demonstrated notable activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or ransom amounts have not been publicly disclosed by CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence firms. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting periods, though comprehensive technical analysis and attribution efforts by established security researchers are still developing given their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 120 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 6, 2025; most recent post June 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 6, 2025McCague Borlack listed by SilentRansomGroupon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by SilentRansomGroup

SilentRansomGroup has been linked to 120 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, McCague Borlack is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by SilentRansomGroup means McCague Borlack 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on SilentRansomGroup'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.