Disclosure context

About genesis

Genesis is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in October 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated a relatively aggressive operational tempo since emergence, accumulating 54 documented victims within a short timeframe. Given the limited public documentation available from established threat intelligence sources regarding this newly identified group, specific details about their country of origin, organizational structure, and precise attack methodologies remain under investigation by security researchers. The group's targeting patterns indicate a preference for victims in the United States and United Kingdom, with additional activity observed in Malaysia and Spain, suggesting either a broad operational scope or the use of automated targeting tools that do not discriminate by geography. Their sector targeting reveals a focus on healthcare, manufacturing, business services, and financial services organizations, indicating they may prioritize entities with both high revenue potential and critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited reporting from major threat intelligence organizations such as Mandiant, CISA, or FBI, comprehensive details regarding their specific encryption methods, initial access vectors, data exfiltration practices, or notable high-profile campaigns have not yet been publicly documented. Genesis remains an active threat as of current reporting, though their operational longevity and potential connections to established ransomware ecosystems continue to be assessed by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 82 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 21, 2025; most recent post May 19, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 11, 2026Ben F. Barcus and associates pllc listed by genesison 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, Ben F. Barcus and associates pllc 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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Ben F. Barcus and associates pllc

Claimed by genesis · listed 9 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 11, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: genesis
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ben F. Barcus and Associates PLLC is a US-based law firm operating in the legal/business services sector. Based on the leak post context, the firm handles client matters spanning medical, criminal, and financial legal work. No public website content was available to further characterize the firm's size or location.

Industry: Legal Services (Law Firm)

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of ~500 GB of data containing regulated sensitive categories at scale: medical records, criminal case files, personal PII, and financial data belonging to the firm's legal clients.

The Genesis ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 500 GB of data from the firm's file server, including client personal data, medical records, criminal case data, financial data, email archives, and network user folders; data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client data
Personal data
Medical data
Legislation data
Criminal case data
Operational data
Financial data
Company file server data
Email archives
Network user folders

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

A law firm from Tacoma, WA.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Founded in 2009, HostBooks is an accounting software provider. The company's software features cloud accounting, expense management, cloud storage, invoicing, reconciliations, inventory management, data import/export, financial reports and a client management portal.
For these lawyers, building a website is too complicated. The same goes for protecting their clients' data.

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- 500 Gb of accessible data.
- Clients Data.
- Personal Data.
- Medical Data.
- Legislation Data.
- Criminal Data.
- Operational Data.
- Financial Data.
- Data from company fileserver. 
- Email archives.
- Folders of network users. 

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[Download The List of Company Files](http://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/download/72daf8151f038f9399f8.txt)

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Ben F. Barcus and associates pllc

Sources

Victim site.
Leak posthttp://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/72daf8151f038f9399f8/

Source

Indexed 9 days ago

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