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AFTRDRK

AFTRDRK/Threat actor engagement

Ransomware negotiationWhen they come for you,they get us.

Right now

Don't reply. Don't delete anything. Don't let an executive answer a message sent to them directly. Use the form below. A human answers within 30 minutes, any hour.

ENG-2026-0092Night oneActorOptionsIllustrative record
02:14Note found. Your team contacts the desk.
02:31A human on the line. Counsel looped in. Nothing sent to them.
03:05First message to the actor leaves from us. Their deadline is ignored.
03:40Handle matched to
04:12Counterparty screened. No sanctions nexus.
08:00Options briefed in plain language. The decision stays yours.
00

Engagethe desk.

If your company mail may be compromised, use an address and a device they can't see.

01

Confront the threat.Regain leverage.

Demands come down. Time gets bought. The story stays yours. We take the conversation so you never have to be in it.

01Knowledge transfer

What they took, what they said, who they contacted. Your counsel in the room from the first hour.

02Establish communications

Every message to them comes from us. Every message from them comes to us first.

03Engage the threat actor

Attribution runs while they talk. Every message tells us something they didn't mean to tell.

04Negotiation and milestones

Options in plain language at every step. Pay or don't pay is your decision, made knowing who is on the other side.

02

Money,plainly.

FeeFixed before we begin

We take no percentage of anything you pay. Nothing to gain from a bigger or longer incident.

SanctionsScreened, every time

Every counterparty checked against global sanctions lists. A nexus ends it. No license workaround.

TermsRetainer or on demand

A retainer is signed in daylight and jumps the queue. On demand is signed the night it happens.

03

It ends.They don't.

They kept your data, and they kept notes on how you reacted. Surveillance after an engagement is month-to-month. Keep watching.

04

Sign itin daylight.

A retainer jumps the queue and is signed before the night it happens. Tell us about your organization and we'll send terms.