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ZEUS Scientific

bd_1eaf8c2b4dcb2373 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 26, 2022

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for ZEUS Scientific2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Avoslocker 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: HealthcareDiscovered: 2022-12-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

https://www.zeusscientific.com/about Zeus Scientific, Inc. manufactures clinical diagnostic solutions. The Company offers flexible solutions for autoimmune and infectious disease testing. AvosLocker team publishes the first part of exfiltrated files from Zeus Scientific Servers, NDA contracts etc

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 26, 2022

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 2021-06-13

avoslocker

According to ransomware.live, AvosLocker is the ransomware payload of the Avos RaaS group, active from July 2021 to approximately May 2023, targeting education, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors on Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments, with the US accounting for ~72% of victims.

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