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, 2023onyx-pharma.dz 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, onyx-pharma.dz is reported in DZ.

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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Onyx Industrie Pharmaceutique

listed as onyx-pharma.dz · 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: DZ
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Mar 11, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Onyx Industrie Pharmaceutique is an Algerian pharmaceutical company engaged in the production and marketing of medications, dietary supplements, and dermo-cosmetic products under brands including Onyx®, Serenity®, and Gemme®. The company operates a manufacturing facility and a liaison office in Algiers, serving the domestic Algerian market with export as a medium-term objective. Contact numbers indicate locations consistent with the Béjaïa or northeastern Algeria region.

Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is stated as published (disclosed status: data_published) against a pharmaceutical manufacturer, which likely holds sensitive business, regulatory, and employee data. Pharmaceutical sector data exposure carries significant operational and regulatory risk even absent explicit confirmation of PII at scale.

The Darkpower ransomware group claims an attack against Onyx Industrie Pharmaceutique with a disclosed status of data_published, suggesting data exfiltration and/or publication has occurred. No ransom amount or specific data size was stated in the available post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate contact and operational data
Product registration and regulatory documents
Employee records
Business communications

Sources

Victim siteonyx-pharma.dz
Leak posthttp://powerj7kmpzkdhjg4szvcxxgktgk36ezpjxvtosylrpey7svpmrjyuyd.onion/27ffeae6d31d475f9f6a23413af968eb

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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