Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP
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Full breach record for Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP →2 incidents on fileThreat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group ALPHV / BlackCat 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
Founded in 1975, Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, has become one of New York’s most respected mid-size commercial litigation, transactional law, government relations, and public affairs firms, with five offices located in New York City, Albany, Washington, D.C., White Plains and Palm Beach, FL. DHC combines a multi-discipline law practice with a distinguished government relations practice, handling legal and lobbying matters from the routine to the complex. We invite you to review the practice areas listed on our site and examine our credentials and experience. We practice law in a synergistic manner. Each of our practice groups is chaired by a highly distinguished lawyer in the field, working together with lawyers from different departments to achieve our client’s objectives. We are known to be aggressive and results-oriented legal professionals, both in the boardroom and the courtroom. Our skilled attorneys handle complicated and sensitive matters for a varied clientele that includes Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, litigants in business disputes, financial institutions, owners of valuable intellectual property, prominent real estate owners and developers, construction companies, trade associations, labor unions, nonprofits, leading fashion industry brands, hospitality business owners, and a variety of well-known companies and executives, as well as individuals and families confronted with family law and trusts and estates issues. Our government relations group closely monitors legislative and regulatory developments, strengthening our value proposition when clients’ legal matters intersect with governmental concerns. The firm’s experience in both government relations and traditional legal services enables us to address each client’s specific concerns with a perspective approach offered by few New York law firms. As a mid-size firm, DHC offers all the benefits of
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Aug 21, 2023
Claim posted
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Corroborated · see linked filings
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
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap
- Maine State AGbd_3b37ea23e9b37e6b2024-08-09 · +354dVerified
- Indiana State AGbd_cd245bb64f6273b42024-08-19 · +364dVerified by operator
- Montana State AGbd_56edfa3d945c42d02024-08-20 · +365dVerified by operator
- California State AGbd_f03d3a1a868c42862024-08-20 · +365dVerified by operator
Show 3 more filings ↓Show fewer ↑up to 371d gap
- Vermont State AGbd_71369198ffef49ce2024-08-21 · +366dVerified
- Massachusetts State AGbd_9beb0a4154edab632024-08-21 · +366dVerified
- New Hampshire State AGbd_8c5c00a3b5bf96f72024-08-26 · +371dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Aug 21, last Aug 26 (NH) — a 371-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
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.
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.
alphv
According to ransomware.live, The operators of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware began their activity in December 2021, making posts on Dark Web forums to promote their affiliate program, offering other actors the opportunity to engage in a 'new type of ransomware family' developed from scratch using the Rust programming language. Some clear evidence indicates that the actors behind this new ransomware are not new to cybercrime, and there were links to other affiliate programs such as DarkSide, BlackMatter, and REvil. (After several attacks against large companies, these groups faced pressure and arrests, necessitating the termination of their operations). As a security measure, the operators of ALPHV implemented the requirement for the execution of the ransomware payload by providing an 'access token,' which is supplied by the owners of the Ransomware-as-a-Service to the affiliate. This token is added to the victim's ransom note so that they can contact the threat actor responsible for encrypting the data. ALPHV affiliates employ double and triple extortion techniques, meaning the publication of the company's name on leak sites, threats of data leakage, and lastly, threats of DDoS attacks against the organization. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs