Disclosure context

About Stormous

Stormous is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2022, operating primarily with financial motivations and has claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 165 victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's country of origin remains unclear from publicly documented sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation from major security firms indicates the group employs common ransomware tactics, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively detailed in reports from CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers. Their targeting appears geographically diverse with a focus on Spain, the United States, France, UAE, and Brazil, while showing particular interest in technology, hospitality and tourism, government, and business services sectors, though many of their victims span unspecified industries. As of current reporting, Stormous appears to remain an active threat, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent families that receive extensive coverage from major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 220 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 22, 2022; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 27, 2025Volkswagen listed by Stormouson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Volkswagen is reported in Germany, a country with 695 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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Volkswagen

Claimed by Stormous · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 27, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Stormous
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Oct 27, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Volkswagen Group is one of the world's largest automotive manufacturers, headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Group comprises multiple major brands including Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini, SEAT, CUPRA, Škoda, and Ducati, among others. It operates globally, delivering millions of vehicles annually and employing over 650,000 people worldwide.

Industry: Automotive Manufacturing & Mobility
Address: Berliner Ring 2, 38440 Wolfsburg, Germany
Employees: 100000+
Founded: 1937

Attack summary

Severity: high — Volkswagen CarNet is a connected-vehicle telematics platform that likely holds vehicle owner PII, location data, and vehicle telemetry at significant scale. Confirmed exfiltration from such a system at a major global automotive OEM constitutes high severity, potentially escalating to critical if personal location/vehicle data for large numbers of customers is confirmed exfiltrated.

Stormous claims to have breached Volkswagen's CarNet connected-vehicle system and accessed internal data; the disclosure status is listed as data_published, though no ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

CarNet system internal data
Connected vehicle platform records

What the group claims

CarNet system breach Internal data accessed

Sources

Victim sitevolkswagen-group.com

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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