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Scott & Kraus, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 18, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Kraken 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: 2025-06-28

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Scott & Kraus, LLC is a boutique law firm located in Chicago specializing in commercial finance. The firm serves a diverse ran...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 18, 2025

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 308d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteFeb 18 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 18, last Dec 23 (MA) — a 308-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 2024-02-12

kraken

According to ransomware.live, Kraken is a Russian-speaking ransomware group that emerged in February 2025, believed to have links to the HelloKitty operation, employing a RaaS model notable for a benchmarking step that measures victim machine speed to optimize encryption, and in September 2025 launched an underground criminal forum called "The Last Haven Board."

25 victims claimed globally25 tracked hereFull profile →