Best Brands Incorporated
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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cactus 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
<p>“We are a 60+year old company with operations in New York, Hong Kong and China. Our products are as diverse as the capabilities of our young and tenacious team of artists. We work with major brands and licenses in the industry including Cuisinart, Waring, Rachael Ray, Imusa,Daisy Fuentes, CFA, Safety First, Disney, Nick, Marvel and Hasbro. We also cater to major and specialty customers' private label needs in the US, Canada and South America.”<br><br>Website: <a href="https://bestbrands.com/">https://bestbrands.com/<\/a><br><br>Revenue : $10.5M<br><br>Address: 25 MERRICK AVE, Merrick, New York, 11566, United States<br><br>Phone Number: [REDACTED-PHONE]<br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Download link #1:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/BESTBRANDS/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/BESTBRANDS/PROOF/<\/a><br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Mirror:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/BESTBRANDS/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/BESTBRANDS/PROOF/<\/a><br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>DATA DESCRIPTIONS:<\/strong><\/mark> Personal Identifiable information, database backups, corporate documents\agreements\contracts, financial data, payroll, HR dept docs, shipping\operations data, corporate OneDrive export, employees personal folders, corporate and personal correspondence, etc.<\/p><p><img src="/uploads/YOCASTA_C_PENA_PASSPORT_245ec781dc.png" alt="YOCASTA C PENA - PASSPORT.png"><img src="/uploads/Loan_documents_cb339f5c13.png" alt="Loan documents.png"><img src="/uploads/Walmart_Settlement_Agreement_8_20_24_de3e22682c.png" alt="Walmart Settlement Agreement 8-20-24.png"><img src="/uploads/Great_American_Financial_svcs_2022_2023_45d81ba094.p
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Feb 3, 2025
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
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
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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.
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.
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cactus
According to ransomware.live, The CACTUS ransomware is said to have emerged around March 2023. The group became known for exploiting vulnerabilities to gain initial access and maintain a presence within the organization's infrastructure. There is little known information about the ransomware group, except that it emerged on the mentioned date and, following encryption, a text file named 'cAcTuS.readme.txt' would be created. Additionally, encrypted files were altered to the '.cts1' extension, and data exfiltration and victim extortion were conducted through the use of the service known as Tox. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs