Was attorneykohm.com hit by ransomware?

attorneykohm.com was listed by the VanHelsing ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the VanHelsing ransomware group?

VanHelsing is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the attorneykohm.com breach?

VanHelsing published data attributed to attorneykohm.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Law Offices of David Kohm

listed as attorneykohm.com · Claimed by VanHelsing · listed 1 year ago

15m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 31, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: VanHelsing
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 31, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Law Offices of David Kohm is a personal injury and family law firm operating in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area for over 25 years. The firm provides legal representation in personal injury cases, auto accidents, bankruptcy, family law, immigration, and criminal law with offices in Arlington, Fort Worth, and Dallas.

Industry: Legal Services - Personal Injury & Family Law
Address: Arlington, Fort Worth, and Dallas, Texas (multiple offices)
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: high — Law firm breach with confirmed data publication (disclosed status: data_published). Legal firms routinely handle sensitive PII, medical records, financial information, and privileged client communications. Scale and specific data categories not detailed in the post, but the nature of legal practice practice inherently involves regulated and sensitive information.

VanHelsing claims to have breached Law Offices of David Kohm and published data. The leak post does not explicitly detail whether data was encrypted, exfiltrated, or both, nor does it specify what categories of data were compromised.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client case files
Personal injury litigation records
Client contact information
Financial/billing records
Legal correspondence

What the group claims

Attorney David KohmOffices throughout the Dallas Fort Worth AreaThe Law Offices of David Kohm have provided expert legal representation to the people of Arlington and Dallas Fort Worth for over 25 years. Our entire legal team is dedicated to one goal: Aggressively represent our clients to ensure the best possible outcome. We are not satisfied until you are made whole.When it comes to your financia

Sources

Victim siteattorneykohm.com
Leak posthttp://vanhelxjo52qr2ixcmtjayqqrcodkuh36n7uq7q7xj23ggotyr3y72yd.onion/blog/blog.php?id=43

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About VanHelsing

VanHelsing is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in March 2025, appearing to be financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. Given their recent emergence and limited public documentation, details about their specific country of origin and affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting of multiple Western nations suggests they may operate from outside these jurisdictions. The group has demonstrated a preference for high-value sectors including healthcare, technology, and financial services, with attacks spanning the United States, Australia, Chile, France, and Italy, though their specific attack vectors and technical methodologies have not been extensively documented by major security firms or government agencies. With only eight known victims since their March 2025 emergence, VanHelsing appears to be a smaller-scale operation that may be conducting targeted attacks rather than broad spray-and-pray campaigns. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited public intelligence available suggests they have not yet achieved the notoriety or scale of more established ransomware operations. The group has been linked to 8 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 17, 2025; most recent post April 5, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 31, 2025attorneykohm.com listed by VanHelsingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by VanHelsing

VanHelsing has been linked to 8 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, attorneykohm.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by VanHelsing means attorneykohm.com 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on VanHelsing'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.