Disclosure context

About blacknevas

Blacknevas is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in August 2025, appearing to be primarily financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their diverse geographic targeting suggests either a distributed operation or broad opportunistic approach. Based on available victim data, Blacknevas has compromised at least 23 organizations across multiple countries, with the United States, Spain, India, Japan, and Thailand being the most frequently targeted nations, while their sector focus spans technology, manufacturing, energy, and consumer services industries, suggesting they employ opportunistic rather than sector-specific targeting methodologies. The group's attack vectors, specific tools, and whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or maintain independent operations have not been publicly documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence in August 2025, there is insufficient public reporting from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers to detail notable campaigns or significant attacks beyond the confirmed victim count. Given the recency of their first observed activity, Blacknevas appears to remain active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from authoritative sources have yet to be published. The group has been linked to 31 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2025; most recent post April 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: black nevas.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 30, 2026KINAS SOLICITORS listed by blacknevason 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, KINAS SOLICITORS is reported in GB, a country with 309 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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KINAS SOLICITORS

Claimed by blacknevas · listed 20 days ago

20d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 30, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: blacknevas
Status: Data leaked
Country: GB
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kinas Solicitors is a London-based law firm registered in England and Wales (company number 7366558), regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA No: 557288). The firm operates from Haringey, London and provides legal services across immigration and nationality, personal injury, property, employment law, and family law to local residents and businesses. It is a small firm with a named team of at least four solicitors.

Industry: Legal Services (Solicitors)
Address: 393 Green Lanes, Haringey, London, N4 1EU, United Kingdom

Attack summary

Severity: critical — A law firm's client files constitute highly sensitive regulated data (PII at scale, potentially including immigration status, medical records for personal injury, financial data for property transactions, and family/domestic details). Over 158,000 files across 138 GB have been published, representing confirmed large-scale exfiltration of privileged legal communications and client PII, likely triggering GDPR and SRA regulatory obligations.

The group claims to have exfiltrated 158,930+ files totalling 138+ GB of data, described as clients' and companies' data along with all accompanying documents relating to the provision of legal services, and has published a download link indicating the data has been fully released.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client personal data
Company records
Legal case documents
Immigration and nationality files
Personal injury case files
Property transaction documents
Employment law case files
Family law case files

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

In stock: 158930+ filedata size: 138+ GBClients' and companies' data. All accompanying documents for the provision of legal services.https://upload.disroot.org/r/NcbLvRJA#4yFm0LKryVpJs1ljs/872ovN2R4sjFEd5fFA7N2jyB8=We ask all our partners, friends and clients to contact us to discuss the acquisition of this data. You know the contacts. For new members, please wait in the Contacts tab.Advertising:We are always ready to cooperate in any form, do you need specific data? We will try to provide it to you as soon as possible, we will receive and download your competitors' data, provide a list of what you are interested in. We are also ready to cooperate with law firms and data leak victims. We will provide all the information you need about the company that was negligent and provided access to data to its clients.

Sources

Victim sitekinas.co.uk
Leak posthttp://ctyfftrjgtwdjzlgqh4avbd35sqrs6tde4oyam2ufbjch6oqpqtkdtid.onion/41d35858-aae9-405c-9441-c13f700ca975

Source

Indexed 20 days ago

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