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GLOBALMalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareKarakurtRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

MICROFINANCE INSTITUTION

bd_c12351af0a81f222 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 28, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for MICROFINANCE INSTITUTION

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Karakurt 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: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2023-03-28

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

We're happy to present you a brilliant 4TB stolen from a microfinance institution. We have 2,861,839 SSNs in total. Beside this, we hold other high value databases - for example, a gigantic database with 3 million lines, which contains information about the status of the loan, addresses, last names, phone numbers, mails, and even the characteristics of the debtor - very entertaining reading.Moreover, we have finance, clients data, accounting data, legal data, CRM backups, fully dumped VIP users mailboxes and more.You will definitely enjoy it!

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Mar 28, 2023

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

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.

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.

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 2022-12-11

karakurt

According to ransomware.live, Karakurt is a pure data-extortion group (no encryption) assessed with high confidence to be the extortion arm of the Conti ransomware group, active from 2021, that steals data and threatens to auction or publish it unless ransoms ranging from $25,000 to $13 million are paid.

74 victims claimed globally74 tracked hereFull profile →