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K Azarosian Costello

bd_30956abc17024287 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 18, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for K Azarosian Costello

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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: 2023-01-18

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

At KAZAROSIAN COSTELLO,we combine experience, knowledge and a record of success that is hard to find in other firms. In addition to our vast legal experience, the attorneys in our firm are committed to leadership at state and county bar associations. Boasting current and past presidents of bar associations including the Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, the Essex County Bar Association, and the Haverhill Bar Association, the firm has developed strong relationships in the legal community with both bench and bar.Licensed to practice in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and California, our team provides the skilled, individualized representation our clients deserve.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 18, 2023

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 2023-06-12

blacksuit

According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.

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