Valley Mountain Regional Center
karakurt listed this organization on its leak site on Aug 31, 2023.
- Listing date
- Aug 31, 2023
- Attack date
- Aug 31, 2023
Listing text
Valley Mountain Regional Center is a private company that serves children and adults with developmental disabilities. Data: 147GB (medical record, passports, SSNs, accounting, financial documents).Soon.
About the group
karakurt posted its first listing on Dec 11, 2022 and has listed 74 organizations to date.
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.
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What does this listing mean?
Ransomware groups move data out of the organization before encrypting systems and threaten to publish it if the ransom is not paid. This method is called double extortion.
The listing shows that the group claims to have targeted the organization. Whether the data was published is shown by the later status of the listing.
What should you do if your organization is listed on a leak site?
- Record the listing and any published sample files; do not visit the leak site from the corporate network.
- Isolate affected systems and preserve logs without deleting them.
- Determine which data left the organization; if personal data is involved, review notification obligations with your legal team.
- Make any decision about the ransom demand together with legal, management and incident response.
- Do not bring systems back online before the attacker’s entry point is closed.
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