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Motor World ARC

listed as www.motorworldarc.co.uk · Claimed by Global · listed 1 year ago

14m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 4, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Global
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site
Jun 4, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Motor World ARC is a UK-based automotive repair company specializing in accident repair, bodywork restoration, and mechanical services. The company focuses on high-quality vehicle repair solutions for customer vehicles.

Industry
Automotive Repair & Bodywork Services

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post contains only a listing and company description with no specific data inventory disclosed, no proof files or screenshots advertised, and no operational impact stated. Exfiltration is implied by 'data_published' status but not substantiated with evidence.

The group claims to have attacked Motor World ARC and published data. The specific attack vector (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and data categories are not detailed in the available post.

low

What the group claims

Motor World ARC is a UK-based company specializing in vehicle repairs and automotive services, offering expert solutions for a range of car-related needs. They provide high-quality accident repair, bodywork restoration, and mechanical services, with a commitment to customer satisfaction and precision.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About global

The "global" ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in June 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations based on their ransomware deployment activities. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, specific details about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest broad international scope. Based on available data, the group has compromised 32 known victims across multiple countries including the United States, Australia, Brazil, Great Britain, and Mexico, with their attacks primarily focused on healthcare, manufacturing, technology, and public sector organizations. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tools remain undocumented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from established security research organizations. Given the limited timeframe since their first observed activity in June 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents attributed to this group in public threat intelligence sources. The current operational status of the "global" ransomware group remains active based on their recent emergence, though comprehensive analysis is limited due to the lack of detailed public reporting from major cybersecurity firms and government agencies. The group has been linked to 32 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 4, 2025; most recent post August 20, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 4, 2025www.motorworldarc.co.uk listed by globalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by global

global has been linked to 32 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.motorworldarc.co.uk is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by global means www.motorworldarc.co.uk appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on global's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.