Disclosure context

About J

The J ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in May 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple countries and sectors. With limited public documentation available from established security research organizations, the group has demonstrated rapid operational capability by compromising 41 known victims within their initial months of activity. Their targeting strategy appears opportunistic, focusing primarily on organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Argentina, and Germany, with a particular emphasis on technology companies, manufacturing firms, construction businesses, and business services providers. The diversity of their geographic and sectoral targeting suggests either a broad-spectrum approach to victim selection or potential use of automated tools for initial compromise identification. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited reporting from major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies, specific details regarding their technical methodologies, ransom demands, data exfiltration practices, or organizational structure remain undocumented in publicly available threat intelligence. The group remains active as of current reporting periods, though their relative obscurity in established threat intelligence databases suggests they may be operating at a smaller scale compared to more prominent ransomware-as-a-service operations. The group has been linked to 41 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 2, 2025; most recent post November 9, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 30, 2025AZpro Group (azprogroup.com) listed by Jon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, AZpro Group (azprogroup.com) is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

AZpro Group (azprogroup.com)

Claimed by J · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 30, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: J
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 30, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AZPRO Group is a 100% employee-owned company based in Arizona that specializes in designing, printing, and installing large format graphics nationally. The company serves clients with vehicle fleet graphics, corporate environment graphics, retail POP/POS signage, and super graphics. It operates across multiple sectors helping businesses enhance brand visibility through high-quality graphic solutions.

Industry: Large Format Printing & Graphics Installation
Address: Arizona, United States
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no regulated or sensitive data categories (medical, financial, government) are evidenced, and the company operates in a mid-scale commercial printing/graphics sector with no indication of large-scale PII or critical infrastructure involvement.

Group J claims to have compromised AZpro Group and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating exfiltration and publication of company data. No specific data size or ransom amount was stated in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Client data
Internal documents
Employee information

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

AZpro Group is a multi-faced company that specializes in graphic design, installation, and printing services. Based in Arizona, the company offers a diverse range of services such as vehicle graphics, custom interior graphics, exterior graphics, retail graphics, and large format printing. With its proven expertise, the company helps businesses enhance brand visibility through high-quality graphic solutions.

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.