Disclosure context

About obscura

Obscura is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has compromised at least 33 known victims since their emergence, demonstrating rapid operational capabilities despite their recent entry into the ransomware landscape. Limited public documentation exists regarding their country of origin, operational structure, or affiliations with established ransomware families, though their targeting pattern suggests either opportunistic attacks or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. Their victim profile spans multiple sectors including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and construction, with geographic focus on the United States, Malaysia, Portugal, Egypt, and Denmark, indicating either broad targeting criteria or access to varied attack infrastructure across different regions. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting from major security vendors and law enforcement agencies, specific details regarding their technical capabilities, encryption methods, data exfiltration practices, or ransom demands remain undocumented in open-source intelligence. The group appears to remain active as of late 2025, though insufficient time has elapsed to determine their long-term operational sustainability or potential law enforcement attention. The group has been linked to 33 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 5, 2025; most recent post January 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 11, 2026REDtone listed by obscuraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunication sector, which has 54 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, REDtone is reported in MY, a country with 29 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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REDtone

Claimed by obscura · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 11, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: obscura
Status: Data leaked
Country: MY
Sector: Telecommunication
Listed on leak site: Jan 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

REDtone is a Malaysian integrated telecommunications and digital services provider founded in 1996. The company delivers telecom, managed network, cloud, IoT, and AI-powered solutions to businesses across Malaysia, and is listed on Bursa Malaysia. Its offerings span SD-WAN, satellite internet (Starlink), cybersecurity, cloud PBX, AI agents, and CRM platforms.

Industry: Integrated Telecommunications & Digital Services
Address: Malaysia
Founded: 1996

Attack summary

Severity: high — Disclosed status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration from a publicly listed telecommunications provider that serves enterprise clients and handles network infrastructure data; even without a detailed inventory, compromise of a telco's systems poses significant risk to business and potentially customer data.

The group 'obscura' claims to have attacked REDtone International, a Malaysian telecommunications service provider, with data published indicating exfiltration has occurred. No specific data categories, ransom amount, or data volume were disclosed in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unspecified exfiltrated data

What the group claims

REDtone International is a telecommunications service provider for to niche markets.

Sources

Victim siteredtone.com

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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