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beinlaw.co.il - Prof. Bein & Co.

bd_2d3718fd782442c4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 21, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for beinlaw.co.il - Prof. Bein & Co.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Braincipher 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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2024-08-21

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Prof. Bein & Co., accessible via beinlaw.co.il, is a reputable law firm based in Israel. It specializes in various legal fields, offering expert services in commercial law, real estate, litigation, and intellectual property. The firm is known for its professional approach, experienced team, and commitment to providing tailored legal solutions to meet the unique needs of its clients.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 21, 2024

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 2024-07-01

braincipher

According to ransomware.live, Brain Cipher emerged in July 2024. Both Windows and Linux variants are available. Brain Cipher using the leaked build of LockBit Black for their operations. The group suspected to have exploited CVE-2023-28252 (Microsoft Windows CLFS Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability). The Ransom demand ranges from $150,000 to $1,00,0000. Demand to be paid with Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. In 2025, they have shifted their new Negotiation portal to new server with vanity TOR Domain starting with 'brain'.

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