Legal Recruitment in Manchester, London & Birmingham
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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cactus 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
<p>Business Services.<br><br>“From BCL Legal we have established long standing relationships with law firms and law schools alike. We understand that looking for the perfect graduate or the first step on the legal career ladder can be tough. BCL Graduates now makes that process easy with a few simple clicks.”<br><br>Website: <a href="https://www.bcllegal.com/">https://www.bcllegal.com/<\/a><br><br>Revenue : $16.7M<br><br>Address: 77 Deansgate Lancaster Buildings Fl 3, Manchester, Lancashire, M3 2BW, United Kingdom<br><br>Phone Number: +44 1618197475<br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Download link #1: <\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/XCLOUD/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/XCLOUD/PROOF/<\/a><br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Mirror:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/XCLOUD/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/XCLOUD/PROOF/<\/a><br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>DATA DESCRIPTIONS:<\/strong><\/mark> Personal identifiable information, actual database backups, corporate confidential data and correspondence, customer data\contracts, financial documents, personal data, etc.<\/p><p><img src="/uploads/Greg_RTW_Passport_copy_635e84fc27.png" alt="Greg - RTW - Passport copy.png"><img src="/uploads/Rachel_Carr_RTW_Passport_copy_544da0b5ca.png" alt="Rachel Carr - RTW - Passport copy.png"><img src="/uploads/James_Batt_Passport_50e1296240.png" alt="James Batt Passport.png"><img src="/uploads/Tom_Cook_RTW_Passport_copy_f3a8ea954e.png" alt="Tom Cook - RTW - Passport copy.png"><img src="/uploads/CIC_BOARD_2024_plus_contact_details_v2_22da3bd4b5.png" alt="CIC BOARD 2024 plus contact details v2.png"><\/p>
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 10, 2024
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
Not assessable
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
cactus
According to ransomware.live, The CACTUS ransomware is said to have emerged around March 2023. The group became known for exploiting vulnerabilities to gain initial access and maintain a presence within the organization's infrastructure. There is little known information about the ransomware group, except that it emerged on the mentioned date and, following encryption, a text file named 'cAcTuS.readme.txt' would be created. Additionally, encrypted files were altered to the '.cts1' extension, and data exfiltration and victim extortion were conducted through the use of the service known as Tox. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs