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Converting Equipment International

Claimed by Interlock · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 16, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Interlock
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Jul 16, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Converting Equipment International (CEI) manufactures specialized equipment for the converting industry, including slitter rewinders, die cutters, finishers, and inspection systems. The company operates from a UK base and serves manufacturing customers with both standard and custom equipment solutions.

Industry
Industrial Manufacturing Equipment

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration of business-sensitive data (contracts, financial records, customer lists) and employee personal data. However, no proof files or screenshots are advertised in the leak post, and no operational disruption is claimed. The data appears significant but lacks the scale or regulatory sensitivity required for 'high' classification.

Interlock claims to have exfiltrated confidential information including equipment development details, contracts, customer relationships, subsidiary information, and financial records. The group alleges the company had a history of security negligence.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • equipment development documentation
  • customer contracts
  • customer relationship data
  • subsidiary information
  • financial records
  • employee personal data

What the group claims

CEI's mission is to produce high-quality equipment for the manufacturing industry through innovation, collaboration, and integrity. However, the company has a history of neglecting its own security, putting its customers and employees at risk. This negligence has resulted in the leakage of confidential information and personal data. We provide confidential information regarding equipment development, contracts, and customer relationships. We also have information about their subsidiaries and their entire financial structure.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Interlock

Interlock is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in October 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as an independent entity or under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have not yet published comprehensive technical analyses of their operations. Since beginning operations, Interlock has reportedly compromised approximately 100 victims, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as Italy, while demonstrating a preference for attacking education, manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector entities. The group remains active as of late 2024, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security research organizations have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 115 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post July 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 16, 2026Converting Equipment International listed by Interlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Interlock

Interlock has been linked to 115 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Interlock dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Converting Equipment International is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 373 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Interlock means Converting Equipment International 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 Interlock'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.