Disclosure context

About qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,858 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 17, 2026PNSB Insurance Brokers Sdn Bhd listed by qilinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, PNSB Insurance Brokers Sdn Bhd is reported in MY, a country with 29 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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PNSB Insurance Brokers Sdn Bhd

Claimed by qilin · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 17, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: MY
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: May 17, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PNSB Insurance Brokers Sdn Bhd is a Malaysian insurance brokerage firm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Permodalan Negeri Selangor Berhad (PNSB), a Selangor state investment body. The company provides tailored insurance solutions, risk consulting, claims management, and insurance program design and placement to corporates, institutions, and individuals across various sectors in Malaysia.

Industry: Insurance Brokerage & Risk Consulting
Address: Malaysia

Attack summary

Severity: high — The status is data_published, meaning Qilin has confirmed exfiltration and release of data from an insurance broker that handles sensitive financial, corporate, and personal client information regulated under Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). The nature of an insurance brokerage means the data likely includes significant PII and business-sensitive records.

The Qilin ransomware group has listed PNSB Insurance Brokers Sdn Bhd with a disclosed status of data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. No specific details about the nature of the attack, ransom demand, or volume of published data were stated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate client insurance records
Risk assessment documents
Claims management files
Contract and project documents
Personal data subject to PDPA (Malaysia)

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

[Australian College of Business Intelligence](http://ijzn3sicrcy7guixkzjkib4ukbiilwc3xhnmby4mcbccnsd7j2rekvqd.onion/site/blog?uuid=5ecb65aa-3960-4b61-ab37-802b4eb3d3d5)
[Cooperativa de Hospitales de Antioquia - COHAN](http://ijzn3sicrcy7guixkzjkib4ukbiilwc3xhnmby4mcbccnsd7j2rekvqd.onion/site/blog?uuid=bd0eebf4-e436-4f46-b7d8-0c21f8fff528)
[John G Yphantides A Professional Law](http://ijzn3sicrcy7guixkzjkib4ukbiilwc3xhnmby4mcbccnsd7j2rekvqd.onion/site/blog?uuid=1e464ce5-6e74-4e62-be0b-eac503e43af8)
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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for PNSB Insurance Brokers Sdn Bhd

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 days ago

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