Was Unknown Automotive Coatings Company hit by ransomware?

Unknown Automotive Coatings Company was listed by the pear ransomware operation as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the pear ransomware group?

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Unknown Automotive Coatings Company

Claimed by Pear · listed 19 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 4, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Pear
Status: Listed for ransom
Sector: Paint, Coating, and Adhesive Manufacturing, Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Glass & Gases, Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Sep 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

An automotive, industrial, decorative, and furniture coatings manufacturer and distributor. The company produces and supplies paints, coatings, and adhesive products, operating in the chemicals and materials sector.

Industry: Paint, Coating, and Adhesive Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: low — The post is a bare listing with no proof files, screenshots, sample data, or operational impact disclosed. No confirmation of exfiltration or encryption is evident.

The pear group claims to have compromised this automotive coatings manufacturer; however, the leak post contains no specific details about the nature of the breach, data exfiltrated, systems encrypted, or proof of access.

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What the group claims

Manufacture Automotive, Industrial, Decorative and Furniture Coatings, and distribute associated products

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Unknown Automotive Coatings Company

Sources

Leak posthttp://peargxn3oki34c4savcbcfqofjjwjnnyrlrbszfv6ujlx36mhrh57did.onion

Source

Indexed 19 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 130 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post September 4, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 4, 2026Unknown Automotive Coatings Company listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by pear

pear has been linked to 130 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full pear dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Paint, Coating, and Adhesive Manufacturing, Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Glass & Gases, Manufacturing sector.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by pear means Unknown Automotive Coatings Company appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on pear'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.