Disclosure context

About Darkpower

Darkpower is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and ransom demands. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations, though their diverse geographic targeting across Turkey, Czech Republic, France, Peru, and Algeria suggests either opportunistic selection or a broad operational scope. With only 10 documented victims since their emergence, Darkpower appears to be a smaller-scale operation that has specifically focused on healthcare sector organizations, potentially indicating either specialized capabilities for compromising medical infrastructure or opportunistic targeting of organizations perceived as more likely to pay ransoms quickly due to operational criticality. The group's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. Given the limited public information available and the relatively small victim count, Darkpower's current operational status remains unclear, though the group has not been subject to any publicized law enforcement actions or confirmed disruptions as of late 2023. The group has been linked to 10 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Dark Power.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 11, 2023mdclone.com listed by Darkpoweron the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, mdclone.com is reported in Israel, a country with 78 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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MDClone

listed as mdclone.com · Claimed by Darkpower · listed 3 years ago

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 11, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Darkpower
Status: Data leaked
Country: Israel
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Mar 11, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

MDClone is an Israeli healthcare technology company that provides the ADAMS platform, a self-service healthcare data exploration and analytics environment used by health systems, life sciences organizations, and research institutions. The platform enables clinicians and researchers to explore real-world patient data and generate synthetic data for collaboration and innovation. Clients include major institutions such as Intermountain Health, Sheba Medical Center, and Washington University.

Industry: Healthcare Data Analytics & Synthetic Data
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — MDClone handles sensitive healthcare data including real-world patient EHR data and health analytics for major hospital systems; a confirmed data publication event by the threat actor involving a healthcare data platform constitutes a critical-severity incident given the likely presence of regulated medical and patient data at scale.

The Darkpower ransomware group claims to have attacked MDClone and has disclosed the status as data_published, indicating exfiltration and/or publication of data. No specific details about the volume or nature of the published data are available from the captured leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Healthcare analytics platform data
Patient health records (potential)
Synthetic health datasets
Electronic health record (EHR) data
Research data
Customer/client information

Sources

Victim sitemdclone.com
Leak posthttp://powerj7kmpzkdhjg4szvcxxgktgk36ezpjxvtosylrpey7svpmrjyuyd.onion/5260250186b9464295578a7b905ad668

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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