Disclosure context

About AiLock

AiLock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 24 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad operational scope spanning the United States, Canada, Great Britain, China, and Germany. Based on publicly available information from security researchers, AiLock appears to focus on technology companies, consumer services, manufacturing, and public sector entities, though specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security firms. The group's relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation suggest they may be a smaller operation or newly formed entity, with no notable major campaigns or high-profile ransoms publicly reported by established threat intelligence sources. Given the March 2026 first observation date and lack of subsequent major public reporting, AiLock's current operational status and capabilities remain largely undetermined by mainstream cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 3, 2026; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 18, 2026Jazz Hipster listed by AiLockon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Jazz Hipster is reported in US, a country with 2,713 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Jazz Hipster

Claimed by AiLock · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 18, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: AiLock
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: May 18, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Jazz Hipster is a professional loudspeaker and audio speaker manufacturer founded in 1981, offering ODM/OEM product lines spanning home audio, soundbars, Wi-Fi and streaming speakers, speaker drivers, in-ceiling speakers, and IoT/AI audio solutions. The company operates globally with multiple manufacturing locations and provides end-to-end audio system design, simulation, testing, and software development services for international brands. It supports hardware platforms from Amlogic, NXP, MediaTek, and Qualcomm and has capabilities in Android, Linux, and FreeRTOS environments.

Industry: Audio Loudspeaker & Speaker Driver Manufacturing (ODM/OEM)
Founded: 1981

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no regulated PII at scale, medical, financial, or government data is evident; the victim is a B2B audio manufacturer. The potential exposure of proprietary ODM/OEM designs and client data is significant but not critical-tier.

The AiLock ransomware group claims an attack on Jazz Hipster and has listed the disclosure status as data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and/or published. The leak post provides minimal detail on the scope of data at stake beyond the company identification.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
ODM/OEM product design files
Manufacturing process documentation
Software development assets
Customer/brand partner records

What the group claims

Jazz Hipster was established in 1981 as a professional speaker manufacturer responding to market demands and embracing the evolution in technology.

Sources

Victim sitejazzhipster.com

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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