Silicon Valley Mechanical, Inc.
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Full breach record for Silicon Valley Mechanical, Inc. →Threat-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
Locally based San Jose firm, Silicon Valley Mechanical, is a full service mechanical contractor, specializing in design-build commercial HVAC, plumbing, and service / maintenance, including 24-hour emergency services. Our commitment to being industry experts, providing quality service, continuous improvement, and a collaborative culture has afforded us the ability to design and execute all our projects with the utmost success and quality. With our 130,000 SF office and fabrication facility, our project teams are able to design, manufacture, and stage ductwork, piping, and pre-skidded equipment ready for delivery and installation. We are committed to excellence and constantly increasing efficiency by detailing and fabricating utilizing the latest 3D design and manufacturing technology; in turn allowing your project(s) to be completed within your schedule and budget.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Jun 9, 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 (2) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_1e3d94d49fd96fcd2023-07-05 · +26dVerified
- California State AGbd_ed1a2e8f995712182023-07-05 · +26dCandidate
Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Jun 9, last Jul 5 (CA) — a 26-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