Recent

{
  "claim_count": 1,
  "claims": [
    {
      "claimed_published_at": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "country": "United States",
      "first_observed_at": "2026-09-01T03:10:00Z",
      "group": "akira",
      "label": "unverified claim from a criminal leak site",
      "organization": "example.com",
      "sector": "Technology",
      "sources": [
        {
          "license": "CC BY 4.0",
          "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
          "name": "RansomLook",
          "url": "https://www.ransomlook.io/"
        }
      ],
      "website": "example.com"
    }
  ],
  "filters": {
    "group": "akira",
    "limit": 10
  },
  "label": "unverified claim from a criminal leak site",
  "more_available": true,
  "not_returned": 2,
  "scanned_newest": 10
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.ransomware-tracker.com/v1/recent?group=akira'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.ransomware-tracker.com/v1/recent?group=akira' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.ransomware-tracker.com%2Fv1%2Frecent
const res = await pay("https://api.ransomware-tracker.com/v1/recent?group=akira");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://api.ransomware-tracker.com/v1/recent?group=akira")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)