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GLOBALMalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareBabukRansom DemandedActor NamedData Leak ThreatenedData PublishedHigh

Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn

bd_38a663952d70eade · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jul 7, 2021

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Babuk 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: 2023-07-31

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The Babuk v2.0 new

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 7, 2021

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 2020-10-25

babuk

According to ransomware.live, Babuk Ransomware is a sophisticated ransomware compiled for several platforms. Windows and ARM for Linux are the most used compiled versions, but ESX and a 32bit old PE executable were observed over time. as well It uses an Elliptic Curve Algorithm (Montgomery Algorithm) to build the encryption keys.

8 victims claimed globally8 tracked hereFull profile →