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Otero & Associates

bd_e0f4b5d09baec0fd · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 29, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group M3rx 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: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-09-29

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

+[REDACTED-PHONE]. Otero Geeza Law, P.A. is a professional service corporation that offers high-quality legal representation to individuals and business organizations in South Florida and beyond. The firm specializes in various areas of law, including real estate, corporate and business law, litigation, and estate planning. Their mission is to provide accessible, responsive, and skilled legal services while maintaining the highest ethical standards. Otero Geeza Law is dedicated to delivering prompt, personal service and excellent work products to meet the diverse needs of their clients. Stolen: 82.5 GB 106,460 Files

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 29, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

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 2026-04-29

m3rx

According to ransomware.live, M3rx is a small ransomware group first observed in 2025, using AES-CTR/AES-GCM encryption and targeting organizations in England, the US, Australia, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, with around eight claimed victims including a Sydney-based property firm.

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