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KJ Tait

bd_dda1d7e6c99f8d4d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 12, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for KJ Tait

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.

Group activity: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2024-09-25
Listing address (not linked): https://cactusbloguuodvqjmnzlwetjlpj6aggc6iocwhuupb47laukux7ckid.onion/posts/KJTAIT

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

<p>Membership Organizations<br><br>“KJ Tait Engineers provides professional consultancy for the design and management of engineering services for buildings and associated infrastructure throughout the UK. We are a professional practice of Mechanical and Electrical and Public Health (MEP) building services engineers with offices in Aberdeen, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London.”<br><br>Website: <a href="https://kjtait.com/">https://kjtait.com/<\/a><br><br>Revenue : $18.8M<br><br>Address: 42 Union Ter, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, AB10 1NP, United Kingdom<br><br>Phone Number: +44 1224621794<br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Download link #1:<\/strong><\/mark> &nbsp;<a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/KJTAIT/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/KJTAIT/PROOF/<\/a><br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Mirror:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/KJTAIT/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/KJTAIT/PROOF/<\/a><br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>DATA DESCRIPTIONS:<\/strong><\/mark> Personal Identifiable Information, database backups, corporate documents\contracts\projects\drawings, employees personal data, customer information, financial documents, corporate correspondence, etc.<\/p><p><img src="/uploads/Bob_Passport_91d43bfd17.png" alt="Bob Passport.png"><img src="/uploads/KJT_Abbott_Confidentiality_Statement_f7c6d55b0a.png" alt="KJT-Abbott Confidentiality Statement.png"><img src="/uploads/MT_734d847fa9.png" alt="MT.png"><img src="/uploads/23_05_22_A0423_KJT_ZZ_XX_RP_E_0001_Electrical_Services_ACC_comments_added_38fed08014.png" alt="23.05.22 A0423-KJT-ZZ-XX-RP-E-0001-Electrical Services ACC comments added.png"><img src="/uploads/RU_Drivers_Licence_acfe7f108d.png" al

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 12, 2024

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

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-07-03

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

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