Disclosure context

About SilentRansomGroup

Based on the limited available information, SilentRansomGroup is a relatively new ransomware operation that first emerged in May 2025, appearing to be financially motivated given their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their diverse geographic targeting including the United States, Germany, Canada, and Russia suggests either a sophisticated operation or potential ransomware-as-a-service model. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security researchers, though their targeting of business services, financial services, hospitality, and manufacturing sectors indicates they likely focus on organizations with both valuable data and ability to pay significant ransoms. With 93 known victims across multiple countries and sectors in a relatively short timeframe since May 2025, SilentRansomGroup has demonstrated notable activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or ransom amounts have not been publicly disclosed by CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence firms. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting periods, though comprehensive technical analysis and attribution efforts by established security researchers are still developing given their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 117 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 6, 2025; most recent post May 19, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 18, 2026Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP listed by SilentRansomGroupon 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, Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP 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.

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Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP

Claimed by SilentRansomGroup · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 18, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: SilentRansomGroup
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 18, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP (WSHB) is a U.S.-based law firm recognized for trial litigation and defense work across multiple practice areas. The firm operates nationally and has a reputation for complex civil litigation matters. As a law firm, it routinely handles sensitive client records, case files, and privileged communications.

Industry: Legal Services – Litigation & Trial Law
Employees: 201-500

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a law firm whose data inherently contains attorney-client privileged communications, PII, and sensitive case materials at scale. Disclosed status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration and public release of potentially regulated and highly sensitive legal records.

SilentRansomGroup claims to have exfiltrated data from WSHB and has published the data, suggesting confirmed exfiltration of potentially privileged legal and client records. No ransom amount was stated and no encryption claim was explicitly made.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client legal files
Privileged communications
Case documents
Attorney-client correspondence
Personal identifiable information of clients

What the group claims

Wood Smith Henning & Berman (WSHB) is renowned globally for our exceptional trial results and expertis…

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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