Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 7, 2023Partnership With Breachforums listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

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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Partnership With Breachforums

Claimed by ransomed · listed 3 years ago

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 7, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Oct 7, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

BreachForums (breachforums.is) is a well-known dark web cybercrime forum historically used for buying, selling, and leaking stolen data. It has operated through multiple iterations following law enforcement takedowns. It serves as a marketplace and community hub for threat actors involved in data breaches.

Industry: Cybercrime Forum / Dark Web Platform

Attack summary

Severity: low — This is a partnership/affiliation announcement with no evidence of an attack, data exfiltration, encryption, or operational disruption against any identified victim. It is essentially a promotional post.

This post does not describe an attack or data exfiltration; rather, the ransomed group announced a partnership with BreachForums, stating they will use the forum to publish or conduct future operations. No encryption, exfiltration, or victim data is claimed.

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What the group claims

links: http://breachedu76kdyavc6szj6ppbplfqoz3pgrk3zw57my4vybgblpfeayd.onion/ https://breachforums.is/ Our group has decided to partner with a forum we did not really believe into first. We had thoughts the project is dead, but wait, It ISNT. Our team has seen breachforums is keeping their operation way more serious than ever, this means our team will and would use their forum to…

Sources

Victim sitebreachforums.is
Leak posthttp://f6amq3izzsgtna4vw24rpyhy3ofwazlgex2zqdssavevvkklmtudxjad.onion/?p=72

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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