Summary
On February 17, 2026, the ransomware group incransom announced that they had successfully breached Hiwassee Builder Supply, a leading supplier of building products in the USA. The attack resulted in the theft of 100GB of sensitive data, including confidential documents, client information, and financial records.
Incident Report
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Target | Hiwassee Builder Supply |
| Domain | N/A |
| Country | USA |
| Attacking Group | incransom |
| Date Reported | February 17, 2026 |
| Threat Actor Statement | “HIWASSEE BUILDERS SUPPLY is dedicated to delivering a wide range of building products and services with exceptional value and service across East Tennessee and beyond. They offer in-house expertise for project design, estimation, and timely product delivery, catering to both home remodeling and commercial construction needs. With four locations in East Tennessee, they ensure efficient service and support throughout various projects.” |
Incransom’s attack on Hiwassee Builder Supply underscores the ongoing threat of ransomware in the construction and building supply industry. The breach has exposed a significant amount of sensitive information, potentially impacting the company’s operations and reputation.
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.
How DeXpose Helps You Stay Ahead
At DeXpose, we specialize in early detection and proactive defense. Our hybrid threat intelligence solution combines automated deep/dark web crawling, Telegram and forum monitoring, and real analyst verification to deliver:
- Continuous scanning of ransomware group leak sites, stolen credential markets, and malware log dumps
- Timely alerts for breaches linked to your domains, email addresses, and key personnel
- Intelligence correlation that connects leaked credentials to infostealer malware infections, often weeks before a public ransom demand
- Real-time visibility into supply chain and third-party exposures through passive surveillance of dark web channels
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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.
