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GFF&F - Galine, Frye, Fitting & Frangos, LLP

Claimed by Pear · listed 9 months ago

9m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 17, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Pear
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Oct 17, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Galine, Frye, Fitting & Frangos, LLP is a personal injury and employment law firm based in San Mateo, California, with additional locations across the Bay Area including San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Santa Barbara. The firm specializes in personal injury cases (car accidents, motorcycle accidents, wrongful death, etc.) and employment law matters such as wrongful termination and wage-and-hour claims. The firm's combined legal experience spans more than 75 years in personal injury settlements and trials.

Industry
Personal Injury & Employment Law Firm
Address
411 Borel Ave #405, San Mateo, CA 94402

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a law firm handling sensitive personal injury and employment cases, meaning exfiltrated data likely includes client PII, medical records, financial settlement details, and privileged attorney-client communications. The status is 'data_published', indicating actual data release rather than a mere listing, which elevates severity. The absence of confirmed large-scale regulated data (e.g., medical records at scale) keeps this at high rather than critical.

The 'pear' ransomware group has listed GFF&F - Galine, Frye, Fitting & Frangos, LLP under a disclosed/data-published status, indicating data has been published or made available. The leak post does not specify the volume of data exfiltrated or detail the nature of the stolen files beyond the group's standard disclosure pattern.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client legal case files
  • Personal injury case records
  • Client personally identifiable information (PII)
  • Financial settlement records
  • Attorney-client communications
  • Employment law case files

What the group claims

Highest-rated San Mateo personal injury attornes

The leak post

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Sources

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 103 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 17, 2025GFF&F - Galine, Frye, Fitting & Frangos, LLP listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by pear

pear has been linked to 103 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full pear dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, GFF&F - Galine, Frye, Fitting & Frangos, LLP is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by pear means GFF&F - Galine, Frye, Fitting & Frangos, LLP 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 pear'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.