Was Trib Total Media hit by ransomware?

Trib Total Media was listed by the Daixin 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 Daixin ransomware group?

Daixin 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 Trib Total Media breach?

Daixin published data attributed to Trib Total Media. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Trib Total Media

Claimed by Daixin · listed 4 years ago

48m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 3, 2022
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Daixin
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Media
Listed on leak site: Aug 3, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Trib Total Media is a regional media company delivering news, information, and advertising across portions of Allegheny, Westmoreland, Armstrong, and Butler counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The company operates print and digital news properties serving local communities in the greater Pittsburgh area. It is a privately held media organization focused on local journalism and advertising services.

Industry: Regional News Media & Advertising
Address: Southwestern Pennsylvania (Allegheny, Westmoreland, Armstrong, and Butler counties), United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosure status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration and public release of company data by Daixin, a known threat actor. While specific data types are not enumerated in the post, publication of exfiltrated data from a media organization represents significant business data exposure.

The Daixin ransomware group claims to have attacked Trib Total Media and has published data, indicating confirmed exfiltration; the specific data types and volume are not detailed in the truncated leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Undisclosed internal company data

What the group claims

Trib Total Media delivers news, information and advertising to portions of Allegheny, Westmoreland, Armstrong and Butler counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Daixin

Daixin is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly documented sources, though their targeting patterns suggest sophisticated operational capabilities and potential access to healthcare sector vulnerabilities. Daixin employs typical ransomware attack methodologies including data exfiltration prior to encryption, implementing double extortion tactics to pressure victims into payment by threatening to release stolen sensitive information alongside system encryption. The group has demonstrated a pronounced targeting preference for healthcare organizations, which represents a significant portion of their documented victims, alongside government entities and financial services organizations. Their geographic focus centers heavily on the United States while also targeting victims across Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, and Canada, indicating either broad operational reach or collaboration with regional affiliates. With 21 documented victims since their emergence, Daixin represents a relatively newer but active threat actor in the ransomware landscape. Current intelligence suggests the group remains operationally active as of recent assessments, continuing to pose threats to critical infrastructure sectors, particularly healthcare organizations that may be viewed as high-value targets due to the sensitive nature of their data and operational dependencies. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 3, 2022; most recent post September 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 3, 2022Trib Total Media listed by Daixinon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Daixin

Daixin has been linked to 21 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 Media sector, which has 54 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Trib Total Media is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Daixin means Trib Total Media 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 Daixin'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.