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Skyward Specialty Insurance

Claimed by Killsecurity · listed 1 year ago

600 GB
Data size
16m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 11, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Killsecurity
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Mar 11, 2025
Data size
600 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Skyward Specialty Insurance is a leading provider of specialty property and casualty (P&C) insurance solutions, operating in niche markets including medical stop-loss, professional lines, surety, transactional E&S, and global property/agriculture/credit reinsurance. Based in Houston, Texas, the company is part of Skyward Group (Nasdaq: SKWD) and serves brokers and agents with unconventional underwriting approaches and technology-driven solutions.

Industry
Specialty Property & Casualty Insurance
Address
Houston, TX

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration (published disclosure status) from a financial services company handling regulated insurance data including policyholder PII, claims, and underwriting information at scale. Specialty insurance companies maintain sensitive records on numerous clients across multiple lines of business.

The group claims to have compromised Skyward Specialty Insurance; however, no leak post content was provided and the disclosed status indicates data_published, suggesting exfiltration occurred. Specific claims about encryption, data types, or operational impact cannot be determined from the available information.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • policyholder information
  • underwriting records
  • claims data
  • agent/broker communications
  • financial records

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Killsecurity

Killsecurity is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, though their global targeting pattern suggests a sophisticated operation. Based on available victim data, Killsecurity has compromised 276 organizations primarily across the United States, India, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Belgium, with a particular focus on healthcare, technology, business services, and financial sectors. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tools remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports from established security firms. Notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity organizations or law enforcement agencies, likely due to the group's recent emergence. Killsecurity appears to remain active as of current reporting, though comprehensive analysis of their operations is limited by the lack of detailed technical documentation from reputable threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 277 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2024; most recent post May 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 11, 2025Skyward Specialty Insurance listed by Killsecurityon the group's public leak site
Data size
600 GB

Other recent disclosures by Killsecurity

Killsecurity has been linked to 277 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Skyward Specialty Insurance is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Killsecurity means Skyward Specialty Insurance 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 Killsecurity'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.