Was Schaad, Balass, Menzl and Partner AG hit by ransomware?

Schaad, Balass, Menzl and Partner AG was listed by the Deadlock ransomware operation (Switzerland), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Deadlock ransomware group?

Deadlock is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Schaad, Balass, Menzl and Partner AG breach?

Deadlock published data attributed to Schaad, Balass, Menzl and Partner AG. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Schaad, Balass, Menzl and Partner AG

Claimed by Deadlock · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 25, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Deadlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: Switzerland
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 25, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Schaad Balass Menzl & Partner AG (SBMP) is a specialized Swiss intellectual property boutique with over 50 years of experience, offering patent law, trademark law, and design protection services. The firm operates offices in Zürich and Winterthur, serving clients across all industries with technical expertise in chemistry, biotechnology, IT, and engineering disciplines.

Industry: Intellectual Property Law & Patent Services
Address: Bellerivestrasse 20, 8008 Zürich; Technoparkstrasse 2, 8406 Winterthur, Switzerland
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1972

Attack summary

Severity: high — IP law firm targeting indicates access to sensitive client intellectual property, confidential patent filings, trademark applications, and proprietary technical data belonging to multiple companies across regulated industries. Even without published proof, the firm's specialization in biotech, pharma, and advanced tech makes exfiltrated data highly sensitive.

Deadlock claims to have breached SBMP and exfiltrated data. No specific details on encryption status, data types, or operational impact are provided in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client files
Patent documentation
Trademark registration records
Design protection records
Legal correspondence
Financial records
Personnel information

What the group claims

SBMP (Schaad Balass Menzl & Partner AG) is a specialized Swiss IP boutique with offices in Zurich and Winterthur, offering comprehensive services in patent law, trademark law, and design protection. With over 50 years of experience and a team of lawyers and technical experts, the firm supports companies across all industries, from filing to enforcement.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Deadlock

Deadlock is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 10 known victims across a geographically diverse target set. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time, a comprehensive technical profile cannot be fully established. Based on available victimology data, the group has demonstrated a targeting pattern spanning Singapore, China, Sweden, Spain, and Nigeria, suggesting an opportunistic or globally distributed operational scope rather than a regionally focused campaign. Targeted sectors include manufacturing, business services, telecommunications, and financial services, indicating a preference for industries with high operational dependencies and potential for significant disruption, which is consistent with financially motivated ransomware actors seeking maximum leverage for ransom payment. No confirmed attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS affiliation, or specific tooling has been publicly documented by authoritative sources as of this profile's preparation. Due to the group's nascent operational timeline and the limited volume of publicly verified intelligence, analysts should treat this profile as preliminary and subject to significant revision as additional technical indicators, victim disclosures, and research reporting become available. Continued monitoring is advised given the cross-sector and cross-regional targeting behavior observed in this early operational phase. The group has been linked to 95 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 15, 2026; most recent post July 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 25, 2026Schaad, Balass, Menzl and Partner AG listed by Deadlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Deadlock

Deadlock has been linked to 95 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Professional Services sector, which has 7 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Schaad, Balass, Menzl and Partner AG is reported in Switzerland, a country with 38 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Deadlock means Schaad, Balass, Menzl and Partner AG 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, NCSC-CH (Switzerland), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Deadlock'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.