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

March 31, 2026Catalyst Learning Company listed by genesison the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Catalyst Learning Company 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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Catalyst Learning Company

Claimed by genesis · listed 2 months ago

50d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 31, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: genesis
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Mar 31, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Catalyst Learning Company is a US-based healthcare workforce development firm founded in 1993 that serves more than 670 acute care hospitals, including HCA and VHA affiliates. The company provides structured professional development programs—such as NCharge for charge nurses and School At Work for entry-level workers—aimed at improving retention, career mobility, and leadership skills. It claims to have helped over 45,000 frontline healthcare workers develop their careers.

Industry: Healthcare Workforce Development & Professional Education
Address: 401 S. Fourth Street, Suite [unknown], Louisville, KY (partial address from public site)
Employees: 11-50
Founded: 1993

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is marked as published by the group, indicating confirmed exfiltration. The company handles data related to healthcare workers and hospital clients (including large systems like HCA and VHA), meaning exposed data likely includes employee PII and sensitive healthcare-adjacent organizational records.

The Genesis ransomware group lists Catalyst Learning Company with a 'data_published' status, indicating that exfiltrated data has been published or made available. No ransom amount or data size was specified in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Employee records
Customer/hospital client data
Professional development program materials
Potentially healthcare workforce PII

What the group claims

Specializes in healthcare training and employee development, aiming to empower staff for better patient outcomes and organizational success.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitecatalystlearning.com
Leak posthttp://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/fa29dbc302e01133c33d/

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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