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Sterling Global Financial

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Jun 22, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 records

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Braincipher 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: 2026-06-22
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 22, 2026

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?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGAug 1 · first
Indiana State AG+20d

Pattern: first filing Aug 1 (MA), last Aug 21 (IN) — a 20-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 2024-07-01

braincipher

According to ransomware.live, Brain Cipher emerged in July 2024. Both Windows and Linux variants are available. Brain Cipher using the leaked build of LockBit Black for their operations. The group suspected to have exploited CVE-2023-28252 (Microsoft Windows CLFS Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability). The Ransom demand ranges from $150,000 to $1,00,0000. Demand to be paid with Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. In 2025, they have shifted their new Negotiation portal to new server with vanity TOR Domain starting with 'brain'.

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