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Communicate UK

Claimed by Beast · listed 4 months ago

$23.83
Ransom
demanded
4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 14, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Beast
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Telecommunication
Listed on leak site
Mar 14, 2026
Ransom demanded
$23.83

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Communicate UK is a security systems company based in Essex, southeast England, specialising in the installation, maintenance, and support of intruder alarms, CCTV, fire alarms, access control, gate automation, and 24/7 monitoring services. They serve domestic, retail, commercial, industrial, and government/education clients. With over 25 years of experience, the company provides tailored security solutions with dedicated account management and round-the-clock engineer support.

Industry
Physical Security Systems Installation & Monitoring
Address
Essex, Southeast England, United Kingdom
Employees
11-50

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor. As a physical security company serving domestic, commercial, government, and education clients, exfiltrated data could include sensitive site security configurations, keyholder information, monitoring data, and customer PII — exposure of which poses significant downstream risk to Communicate UK's clients beyond the company itself.

The Beast ransomware group claims to have attacked Communicate UK and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify the volume of data exfiltrated or whether encryption of systems was also carried out.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer records
  • Business operational data
  • Potentially site survey and installation records
  • Potentially employee and account management data

What the group claims

Communicate UK is a customer-focused security company based in the southeast of England, specializing in the installation, maintenance, and support of security systems including burglar alarms, CCTV, fire alarms, access control, and gate automation. Their products cater to a wide range of clients, including domestic households, retail establishments, licensed venues, and various commercial and industrial sectors. With over 25 years of experience, they provide tailored security solutions designed to protect premises, valuables, and employees, ensuring 24/7 monitoring and peace of mind. The company also emphasizes customer service, offering dedicated account management and 24-hour support

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Communicate UK

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About beast

The Beast ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations through their ransomware campaigns. With limited public documentation available from major security agencies, the group has demonstrated activity primarily targeting victims across the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea, and Argentina, accumulating approximately 65 known victims since their emergence. Their targeting pattern shows a focus on healthcare organizations, manufacturing companies, educational institutions, and construction firms, suggesting an opportunistic approach rather than highly specialized sector expertise. The group's recent emergence means there is insufficient public intelligence from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other established security researchers regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities. Given the timeline of their first observation in mid-2025, Beast represents an active and emerging threat with their current operational status remaining unclear due to limited threat intelligence reporting from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 104 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 14, 2026Communicate UK listed by beaston the group's public leak site
Ransom demanded
$23.83

Other recent disclosures by beast

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunication sector, which has 172 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Communicate UK is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by beast means Communicate UK 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 (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on beast'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.