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GLOBALMalwareTechnologyInformationRansomware8baseRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

Ans

bd_ea12e34180aeadf9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 15, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Ans

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group 8base 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: TechnologyDiscovered: 2023-08-15

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

At ANS, we believe that all organisations have the right to access the best technology, whether SMB, enterprise, public sector or channel. As a business, we have been working with apprentices for over the past 10 years, giving us the experience to offer a full end-to-end experience. In that 10-year period, we've seen 215 apprentices successfully graduate from ANS Group, and in the last 5 years, we have become an Independent Training Provider. We know how to recruit the right team of apprentices and have years of experience supporting them both on and off the job. We know how important it is to have the right program designed for your employee's apprenticeship, which is why we provide wrap-around support for both the apprentice and employer, facilitating a fully collaborative approach to apprenticeship traininghttps://www.ans.co.uk/

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 15, 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.

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

About this groupFirst seen 2022-04-03

8base

According to ransomware.live, The 8base Ransomware group made its first appearance in early March 2022, remaining somewhat quiet after the attacks. This group operates like other ransomware actors, engaging in double extortion. However, in mid-May and June 2023, the ransomware operation saw a spike in activity against organizations from various sectors, listing 131 organizations in just 3 months. The 8base data leak site was created and made available in March 2023, claiming honesty and simplicity in its discourse. VMware published a report on 8base, drawing some similarities with the ransomware group `RansomHouse`, pointing out resemblances such as the website used by 8base and the ransom notes presented in its attacks. Interestingly, the 8base Ransomware group does not have its own ransomware developed by the group. Instead, the actors took advantage of other leaked ransomware builders to customize the ransom note and present it to the victim organization as 8base's operation. Source : https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs

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