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Garlick & Markison

Claimed by Losttrust · listed 3 years ago

34m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 26, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Losttrust
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Legal
Listed on leak site
Sep 26, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Garlick & Markison is a boutique patent law firm operating under the domain texaspatents.com, providing strategic patent portfolio development, litigation support, and post-grant proceedings to clients globally. Each attorney is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and has a background in electrical engineering or software arts. The firm claims to have facilitated over 5,000 patents granted with a greater than 95% issuance rate and over $2 billion in increased client value attributed to patents.

Industry
Patent Law & Intellectual Property Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor. As a patent law firm, the exfiltrated data likely includes highly sensitive and proprietary client intellectual property, invention disclosures, and privileged attorney-client communications, constituting significant business and legal harm even absent a large PII dataset.

The Losttrust ransomware group claims to have compromised Garlick & Markison and has published data (disclosed status: data_published). The post implies exfiltration of firm and client data, which in a patent law context would likely include highly sensitive intellectual property filings, client communications, and proprietary invention disclosures.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client patent filings and applications
  • Proprietary invention disclosures
  • Attorney-client communications
  • IP portfolio documentation
  • Litigation support materials
  • Internal firm records

What the group claims

Garlick & Markison is a boutique law firm specializing in patent portfolio building for its clients. Each practitioner in the firm is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and has a background in electrical engineering or the software arts

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Losttrust

Losttrust is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting scope across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, with limited public reporting from established security firms regarding their operational structure or potential ransomware-as-a-service connections. Based on available victim data, Losttrust appears to employ opportunistic targeting methods, having compromised 53 known victims across diverse geographic regions including the United States, Italy, Germany, Argentina, and India, with particular focus on education, legal services, media organizations, food and agriculture companies, and government entities. The specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics employed by Losttrust have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence and limited visibility in established threat intelligence channels, their current operational status and activity levels remain unclear, though the breadth of their reported victim base suggests ongoing operations as of recent observations. The group has been linked to 53 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 26, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: LOST TRUST.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 26, 2023Garlick & Markison listed by Losttruston the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Losttrust

Losttrust has been linked to 53 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Losttrust dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Legal sector, which has 241 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Garlick & Markison is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Losttrust means Garlick & Markison 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 Losttrust'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.