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 117 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 6, 2025; most recent post May 19, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 6, 2026Sandberg Phoenix Information listed by SilentRansomGroupon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sandberg Phoenix Information is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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.

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Sandberg Phoenix Information

Claimed by SilentRansomGroup · listed 14 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: SilentRansomGroup
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard P.C. is a multi-practice law firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with offices across the Midwest and in Florida. The firm has provided legal services for over 45 years across practice areas including business litigation, health law, intellectual property, family law, cybersecurity/data privacy, real estate, and more. It serves clients of varying sizes throughout the Midwest region.

Industry: Legal Services (Multi-Practice Law Firm)
Address: St. Louis, MO (primary); additional offices in Clayton MO, St. Charles MO, Kansas City MO, O'Fallon IL, Edwardsville IL, Gainesville FL
Founded: 1979

Attack summary

Severity: critical — A law firm holds highly sensitive attorney-client privileged communications, PII at scale across thousands of clients, potentially medical and financial records from health law and wealth planning practices, and confidential business litigation materials. Data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of this regulated, privileged data.

SilentRansomGroup claims to have compromised Sandberg Phoenix and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of firm data. No ransom amount or specific data size was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client legal files
Attorney-client communications
Business litigation records
Health law client data
Intellectual property filings
Employee/HR records
Financial/billing records

What the group claims

Over 45 years providing superior legal services to clients of every size throughout the Midwest and ac…

Sources

Victim sitesandbergphoenix.com

Source

Indexed 14 days ago

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