Summary
On October 8, 2025, the ransomware group Akira claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against Cerenade (cerenade.com), a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for immigration law firms. The attack compromised nearly 100GB of sensitive client data, including passports and visas, affecting individuals worldwide.
Incident Report
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Target | Cerenade |
| Domain | cerenade.com |
| Country | USA |
| Attacking Group | Akira |
| Date Reported | October 8, 2025 |
| Threat Actor Statement | “Cerenade Technology is a leader in providing cloud-based solutions for immigration law firms, offering products such as eIMMIGRATION, eCMS, and eForms Solutions. Their software aims to automate workflows, manage cases and clients, and ensure compliance for legal and government organizations. This is a very special case. We obtained almost 100gb of their clients scanned documents (passports and visas). Thousands of adults and kids are going to suffer because of this leak. We got documents of people from India, USA, Mexico, Middle East countries, Japan and other countries around the globe. It appears that Cerenade’s software automates personal fraud schemes.” |
Recommended Security Actions
Ransomware attacks are increasingly targeting both enterprise and mid-sized organizations across all sectors. The following steps are critical to reduce impact and prevent future incidents:
- Monitor continuously: Use DeXpose’s dark web and infostealer monitoring platform to detect breached credentials, leaked databases, and threat actor chatter in near real-time—before damage spreads internally.
- Conduct a compromise assessment: Immediately initiate a full incident review to determine how attackers infiltrated your network, what data may have been exfiltrated, and whether any persistence mechanisms remain active.
- Validate your backups: Ensure that your backups are current, encrypted, and stored offline. Utilize immutable backup solutions to defend against ransomware encryption and deletion attempts.
- Apply threat intelligence: Integrate external threat feeds, including DeXpose-provided indicators of compromise (IOCs), into your SIEM or XDR platforms for real-time alerting and correlation.
- Harden employee defenses: Run phishing simulations and enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) across all access points. Attackers often exploit weak or reused credentials sourced from the dark web.
- Engage professional response teams: Involve cybersecurity incident response experts, threat analysts, and legal counsel before initiating any dialogue with ransomware groups or ransom brokers.
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Disclaimer
DeXpose does not engage in the exfiltration, hosting, redistribution, or purchase of stolen data. All breach information reported here is collected from publicly accessible dark web sources and threat intelligence platforms.
Our mission is to equip organizations with early-warning indicators, contextual threat insights, and actionable intelligence that help them secure their digital assets against evolving cyber threats.
