Global3 is an obscure ransomware group that first emerged in September 2017, appearing to be financially motivated based on their operational profile. Limited public documentation suggests the group operates independently with no confirmed affiliations to major ransomware families or state-sponsored actors, and there is insufficient evidence to determine their country of origin or whether they function as a Ransomware-as-a-Service operation. Technical details regarding their attack methodology, including initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and data exfiltration capabilities, remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms. The group's operational scope appears extremely limited, with only one documented victim identified in publicly available sources, specifically targeting a government facility within the United States, suggesting either a highly selective targeting approach or minimal operational capability. Current intelligence indicates Global3 has maintained an exceptionally low profile since their initial observation, with no significant law enforcement actions or high-profile campaigns documented, making their current operational status unclear. The group has been linked to 1 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2017. The operation is currently inactive.
Sector and geography
This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government Facilities sector, which has 84 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Town of St Johnsbury 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.
