Ransomware victim disclosure

Bader Balhosh Advocates & Legal Consultants

listed as BBLAWFIRM · Claimed by Monti · listed 1 year ago

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 28, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Monti
Status: Data leaked
Country: UAE
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Jan 28, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bader Balhosh Advocates & Legal Consultants is a Dubai-based law firm founded by Dr. Bader Abdulla Balhosh. The firm provides comprehensive legal services across corporate law, commercial law, civil law, arbitration, maritime law, intellectual property, and various specialties serving clients throughout the UAE and region.

Industry: Legal Services & Law Firm
Address: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Law firm data typically contains sensitive client information, legal documents, and potentially regulated content (PII, financial records). However, the leak post provides no proof files, screenshots, or explicit confirmation of exfiltration or operational impact. Classification is based on the inherent sensitivity of legal practice data and the confirmed disclosure status.

The Monti ransomware group claims to have compromised Bader Balhosh Advocates & Legal Consultants. The leak post contains minimal detail; only the category 'Lawyers' is provided with no explicit statement of exfiltration, encryption, or data types targeted.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client records
Legal files
Business correspondence
Firm data

What the group claims

Lawyers

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Monti

Monti is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted encryption attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Monti's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence from major security firms or government agencies. The group has reportedly compromised approximately 110 victims since their emergence, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, and Italy, showing a particular preference for business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Limited public documentation exists regarding specific notable campaigns or high-profile attacks attributed to Monti, reflecting the group's relatively recent emergence and lower profile compared to more established ransomware operations. As of current reporting, Monti appears to remain an active threat, though comprehensive intelligence on their current operational status is limited in publicly available sources from major cybersecurity organizations and law enforcement agencies. The group has been linked to 110 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 7, 2022; most recent post May 8, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 28, 2025BBLAWFIRM listed by Montion the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, BBLAWFIRM is reported in UAE, a country with 41 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.