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Riley Pope & Laney LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 14, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Riley Pope & Laney LLC

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cicada3301 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: 2024-08-14

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Riley Pope & Laney was founded in 2001 by Ted Riley, Lowndes Pope and Roy Laney. Since its founding, our firm has continually grown and we now have offices in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia providing legal counsel in the areas of banking and financial services, real estate transactions and litigation, business and defense litigation, commercial transactions, technology, and all manners of intellectual property to include patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law. We practice in all state and federal courts in North and South Carolina and Georgia, the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the United States Supreme Court. Our practical approach enables us to effectively and efficiently resolve your issues. With a unique understanding of state government processes and complex public policy initiatives, our firm is ideally suited to provide strategic counsel and legislative representation for clients before the South Carolina General Assembly, Governor’s Office, state agencies and local governments.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 14, 2024

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 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filingsup to 182d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Aug 14, last Feb 12 (SC) — a 182-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 2024-06-04

cicada3301

According to ransomware.live, Cicada3301 is a ransomware-as-a-service group (tracked as Repellent Scorpius by Palo Alto) that emerged in mid-2024 using Rust-based ransomware targeting Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems, suspected to be a successor of BlackCat/ALPHV and running an affiliate program with 20% commissions.

75 victims claimed globally75 tracked hereFull profile →