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GLOBALMalwareConstructionConstructionRansomwareSafepayRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

Columbus, Ohio Architects

bd_198a999e80e5d97d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jun 14, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Safepay on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: ConstructionDiscovered: 2025-07-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

FMS Architects, established in 1983, is a UK based architectural firm that is influenced by modernist principles. With experience in educational, commercial, and residential sectors, their architects work closely with clients and co-consultants to deliver bespoke architectural outcomes. Their ambition is to create buildings which optimize spatial potential and minimize environmental impact. They are committed to leading on sustainability within the design and construction industry.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 14, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-11-10

safepay

According to ransomware.live, SafePay emerged in September 2024 as a rapidly growing ransomware operation that explicitly disavows the RaaS model and manages all operations internally, claiming over 300 victims worldwide by mid-2025 with a high-profile early attack against UK telematics firm Microlise stealing 1.2 TB of data.

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