Disclosure context

About minteye

Based on available information, minteye is an emerging ransomware group first observed in December 2025 with limited documented activity, having targeted at least five known victims primarily for financial gain. The group's origin and affiliations remain unknown, with no publicly documented information from major security firms regarding their operational structure or whether they operate as a ransomware-as-a-service model. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tools have not been extensively documented by reputable security researchers, though their targeting pattern suggests they focus on diverse sectors including construction, transportation/logistics, and agriculture/food production. The group has primarily targeted organizations in the United States and Chile, indicating either a regional focus or opportunistic targeting based on access rather than strategic selection. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence date of December 2025 and limited victim count, minteye appears to be a newly active group with minimal public documentation of their capabilities or impact. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 12, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 12, 2025David M. Schwarz Architects listed by minteyeon the group's public leak site

Data size: 1.9 TB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 415 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, David M. Schwarz Architects is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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David M. Schwarz Architects

Claimed by minteye · listed 5 months ago

1.9 TB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 12, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: minteye
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Dec 12, 2025
Data size: 1.9 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based architectural firm specializing in sustainable, human-centered design across civic/cultural, sports/entertainment, healthcare, residential, educational, and mixed-use projects. The firm has delivered notable projects such as Dickies Arena, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, and Sundance Square. It operates from its office at 1707 L St. NW in Washington, D.C.

Industry: Architecture & Design
Address: 1707 L St. NW, Suite #400, Washington, D.C. 20036

Attack summary

Severity: high — 1.9 TB of data is confirmed exfiltrated and published, representing a significant volume of potentially sensitive business, client, and employee data from a professional architecture firm.

The ransomware group Minteye claims to have exfiltrated 1.9 TB of data from David M. Schwarz Architects and has published the data. No ransom amount was stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Architectural project files
Business documents
Employee records
Client correspondence
Financial records

What the group claims

Size: 1.9 TB

Sources

Victim sitewww.dmsas.com

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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