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JPS Consulting Engineers

Claimed by Beast · listed 1 year ago

$23.83
Ransom
demanded
11m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 29, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Beast
Status
Data leaked
Country
India
Sector
Construction
Listed on leak site
Jul 29, 2025
Ransom demanded
$23.83

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

JPS Consulting Engineers is a Indianapolis-based civil and structural engineering firm founded in 2014. The company employs licensed engineers with 250+ combined years of design and consulting experience, serving clients across Indiana, the Midwest, and internationally. They are a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) specializing in site, civil, and structural engineering for healthcare, institutional, corporate, municipal, and multi-family projects.

Industry
Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting
Address
11 Municipal Drive Suite 300, Fishers, Indiana 46038, USA
Founded
2014

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status confirmed, but the leak post provides no evidence of proof files, screenshots, or details about data type/sensitivity. Engineering consulting firms typically hold project designs, client information, and business records; however, without specific confirmation of exfiltrated content, severity cannot be elevated to high.

The Beast ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from JPS Consulting Engineers and published it. The group's leak post lists the company among dozens of victims but provides no specific details about the type or volume of data compromised.

medium

What the group claims

JPS Consulting Engineers is a group of dynamic site, civil and structural engineers based out of Indianapolis, Indiana. We have a combined 200+ years of design and consulting experience among us. We serve as a one-stop shop for all of your site, civil and structural needs-in Indiana, the Midwest and anywhere you do business. JPS is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). Our firm is distinguished by the ability to communicate complex technical issues in a way that our clients understand. Our employees are passionate about working in collaborative environments which help our healthcare, higher education, advanced technology, construction, and existing building clients to achieve outstanding project results. We believe in a holistic approach to structural design, construction means and methods, and risk consulting. We understand that our clients have competing demands for their projects.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[ 2fORM Architecture specializes in innovative sustainable architecture, offering design services for residential, commercial, and interior projects. Their portfolio includes a diverse range of developments, such as multi-family housing, health care facilities, and various remodels. The company aims to serve clients in the Pacific Northwest, including individual homeowners, businesses, and institutions. With a commitment to sustainability and creativity, 2fORM Architecture enhances the built environment through thoughtful design. ](http://beast6azu4f7fxjakiayhnssybibsgjnmy77a6duufqw5afjzfjhzuqd.onion/card/2form_architecture)[ ACMARK s r o is a company that operates in the Repair Services industry. It employs 10to19 people and has 1Mto5M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Brno, South Moravian, Czech Republic. ](http://beast6azu4f7fxjakiayhnssybibsgjnmy77a6duufqw5afjzfjhzuqd.onion/card/acmark)[ AJU Pharm Co., Ltd. is a prominent South Korean total healthcare company founded in 1953. For over 70 years, it has evolved from a manufacturer of raw materials into a global pharmaceutical group specializing in prescription drugs, medical devices, and health supplements P U B L I S H…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for JPS Consulting Engineers

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About beast

The Beast ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations through their ransomware campaigns. With limited public documentation available from major security agencies, the group has demonstrated activity primarily targeting victims across the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea, and Argentina, accumulating approximately 65 known victims since their emergence. Their targeting pattern shows a focus on healthcare organizations, manufacturing companies, educational institutions, and construction firms, suggesting an opportunistic approach rather than highly specialized sector expertise. The group's recent emergence means there is insufficient public intelligence from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other established security researchers regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities. Given the timeline of their first observation in mid-2025, Beast represents an active and emerging threat with their current operational status remaining unclear due to limited threat intelligence reporting from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 104 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 29, 2025JPS Consulting Engineers listed by beaston the group's public leak site
Ransom demanded
$23.83

Other recent disclosures by beast

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, JPS Consulting Engineers is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by beast means JPS Consulting Engineers 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-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on beast'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.