SMTA Sherwood Mutual Telephone Association
About the organisation
[AI generated] SMTA Sherwood Mutual Telephone Association is a cooperative telecommunications provider based in the United States. It operates in the rural telecommunications industry, offering telephone and related communication services to members in the Sherwood, North Dakota area. As a mutual association, it is member-owned and focused on delivering reliable local and long-distance voice services to underserved rural communities.
What the listing means
SMTA Sherwood Mutual Telephone Association appeared on the worldleaks leak site on 30 April 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated — the attack itself is dated 16 April 2026, 14 days before the listing. This group has published 6 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing SMTA Sherwood Mutual Telephone Association as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on smta.cc, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Telecommunication organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/U01UQSBTaGVyd29vZCBNdXR1YWwgVGVsZXBob25lIEFzc29jaWF0aW9uQHd...
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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.
