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SteelcoBelimed AG

listed as steelco · Claimed by AuditTeam · listed 12 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 1, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
AuditTeam
Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Oct 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Steelco is an Italian manufacturer of cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization equipment for hospitals, laboratories, and pharmaceutical facilities, founded in 2001. Following acquisition by Germany's Miele Group in 2017 and merger with Switzerland's Belimed in 2024, it now operates as SteelcoBelimed AG with approximately €479 million in annual revenue, serving over 100 countries.

Industry
Medical Device Manufacturing — Sterilization & Disinfection Equipment
Founded
2001

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration with public data release of a significant international manufacturing company with €479M revenue; operates in regulated medical device sector supplying hospitals and pharmaceutical facilities, implying potential access to sensitive operational and customer data.

AuditTeam claims to have acquired and exfiltrated data from SteelcoBelimed AG. The group has published sample data artifacts and released a complete archive to the public, characterizing the disclosure as a remediation window expiry.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate and operational records
  • Business documentation
  • Files from merged entities (Steelco, Miele, Belimed)

What the group claims

Steelco is an Italian medical device company founded in 2001, specializing in cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization equipment for hospitals, laboratories, and the pharmaceutical industry; it joined Germany's Miele Group in 2017 and merged with Switzerland's Belimed in 2024 to form SteelcoBelimed AG, now generating approximately €479 million in annual revenue and exporting to over 100 countries

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[[ DATA EXPOSURE LOGS ]](http://6tdqqaxftvradka5d2frzgwixis7fmro7rfh4ettzcx7jfapkebe6jad.onion/)
Steelco is an Italian medical device company founded in 2001, specializing in cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization equipment for hospitals, laboratories, and the pharmaceutical industry; it joined Germany's Miele Group in 2017 and merged with Switzerland's Belimed in 2024 to form SteelcoBelimed AG, now generating approximately €479 million in annual revenue and exporting to over 100 countries
### [ EVIDENCE OF ACQUISITION (SAMPLE) ]
Sample data artifacts have been published to validate our audit findings. Copy the links below to verify.
Archive Decryption Key: 
### [ PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY ARCHIVE ]
The remediation window has expired. The complete acquired data archive is now public.
Archive Decryption Key:

Sources

Source

Indexed 12 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About AuditTeam

AuditTeam is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in April 2026 and appears to be financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation, though their targeting of victims primarily across China, Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand suggests possible regional focus or language capabilities in Asian markets. With only five documented victims to date, AuditTeam appears to operate as a smaller-scale ransomware operation, showing particular interest in manufacturing and technology sectors alongside unspecified target types. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited scale of operations, there are no publicly documented major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant law enforcement actions against them by agencies such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms. The group's current operational status remains unknown given the sparse public intelligence available, and their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been comprehensively documented by reputable security researchers as of available reporting. The group has been linked to 51 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2026; most recent post October 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: audit team.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 1, 2026steelco listed by AuditTeam on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by AuditTeam

AuditTeam has been linked to 51 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full AuditTeam dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, steelco is reported in Italy, a country with 203 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AuditTeam means steelco 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on AuditTeam'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.