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Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd (operating as The Rutherford Group)

listed as Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd / The Rutherford Group www.therg.ca serviced by an IT ... · Claimed by Blacknevas · listed 5 days ago

5d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 12, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blacknevas
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Professional Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd, operating under the brand name The Rutherford Group, is a Canadian logistics company founded in 1974 providing customs brokerage (import/export clearance, compliance consulting, surety bonds), transportation services across Canada, the US, and internationally, and warehousing including bonded facilities and FDA-certified warehouses in Port Huron, Michigan. The family-owned business holds PIP (Partners in Protection) status and positions itself as a one-stop cross-border logistics provider.

Industry
Customs Brokerage & Cross-Border Logistics
Address
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
Founded
1974

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published by ransomware operator with no operational disruption claimed. The company handles customs records, client shipping data, and logistics information—moderately sensitive business data. Absence of specific proof count or detailed data inventory description limits severity assessment.

The blacknevas group claims to have attacked Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd and published data. No specific details about encryption, exfiltration method, or data categories are provided in the leak post excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • customs clearance records
  • client logistics data
  • transportation documentation
  • warehousing records
  • business systems

What the group claims

Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd. is a Canadian customs brokerage company currently operating under the brand name The Rutherford Group. The company provides comprehensive logistics services, primarily: customs brokerage (import and export clearance, clearance through Canadian and US customs, compliance consulting, CARM, surety bonds, etc.). They have PIP (Partners in Protection) status.Transportation: shipping within Canada, the US, and internationally.Warehousing: bonded warehouses (including CBSA sufferance), pick & pack, storage, including FDA-certified warehouses in Port Huron, Michigan.The company was founded in 1974 by Jack Rutherford in Stratford, Ontario. Now a family-owned business (second generation – John Rutherford), it positions itself as a one-stop shop for cross-border logistics.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About blacknevas

Blacknevas is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in August 2025, appearing to be primarily financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their diverse geographic targeting suggests either a distributed operation or broad opportunistic approach. Based on available victim data, Blacknevas has compromised at least 23 organizations across multiple countries, with the United States, Spain, India, Japan, and Thailand being the most frequently targeted nations, while their sector focus spans technology, manufacturing, energy, and consumer services industries, suggesting they employ opportunistic rather than sector-specific targeting methodologies. The group's attack vectors, specific tools, and whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or maintain independent operations have not been publicly documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence in August 2025, there is insufficient public reporting from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers to detail notable campaigns or significant attacks beyond the confirmed victim count. Given the recency of their first observed activity, Blacknevas appears to remain active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from authoritative sources have yet to be published. The group has been linked to 47 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2025; most recent post August 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: black nevas.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 12, 2026Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd / The Rutherford Group www.therg.ca serviced by an IT ... listed by blacknevason the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by blacknevas

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Professional Services sector, which has 14 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd / The Rutherford Group www.therg.ca serviced by an IT ... is reported in Canada, a country with 319 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacknevas means Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd / The Rutherford Group www.therg.ca serviced by an IT ... appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on blacknevas's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.