Summary
On November 28, 2025, the notorious ransomware group Akira launched a cyberattack against
American Public Television (aptonline.org).
The group has claimed to have exfiltrated approximately 22GB of sensitive data and has threatened to release it unless their demands are met.
Incident Report
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Target | American Public Television |
| Domain | aptonline.org |
| Country | USA |
| Attacking Group | Akira |
| Date Reported | November 28, 2025 |
| Threat Actor Statement | “We obtained about 22gb of the following companies: Morton LTC Home specializes in providing pharmacy solutions tailored for long term care providers. Reed Pope is a leading business law firm based in Victoria, British Columbia, specializing in business law, land development, and real estate law. American Public Television (APT) is a distributor of public television programming that has introduced iconic shows and personalities such as Julia Child and Fred Rogers. Benchmark Connector Corporation specializes in providing high-quality connectors for various industries, including military and aerospace applications. Radtke Contractors specializes in pile driving, marine and excavating contracting, their varied experience in snow removal, bridge, and railroad construction allows us to complete a wide range of projects in commercial, municipal and residential construction markets. You will find personal employees and customer information, lots of projects, agreements and contracts and other sensitive files. Some cases contain legal confidential files.” |
This incident highlights the ongoing threat posed by ransomware groups like Akira, which continue to target organizations across various sectors. With a focus on high-impact industries, these cybercriminals leverage stolen data to exert pressure and demand ransom, impacting operational integrity and privacy.
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.
