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CareSTL Health

bd_3c0196a5b3c93726 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Jun 28, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for CareSTL Health →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cephalus 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: 2025-08-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

CareSTL Health DATA Leak | 500+GB | KAWA4096 STEALED our data

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 28, 2025

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 3 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

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.

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 2025-06-28

cephalus

According to ransomware.live, Cephalus is a ransomware group active from mid-2025 that leverages stolen RDP credentials to deploy a Go-based ransomware payload via DLL sideloading, targeting law firms, healthcare, financial services, and IT firms across the US and Japan with 19 known victims.

19 victims claimed globally19 tracked hereFull profile →