Disclosure context

About aurora

Aurora is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations through targeted attacks across multiple sectors. Given its recent emergence, limited public documentation exists regarding the group's specific country of origin or affiliations with established ransomware operations, though its targeting patterns suggest a professional operation potentially operating as an independent entity rather than a known Ransomware-as-a-Service model. The group has demonstrated a preference for attacking business-critical sectors including business services, consumer services, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services, with documented attacks spanning the United States, Canada, the Maldives, and Great Britain, though specific initial access vectors and technical methodologies remain undocumented by major threat intelligence firms. With only seven known victims documented since April 2026, Aurora represents a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families, though its cross-sector targeting approach and international victim scope indicate deliberate selection criteria rather than opportunistic attacks. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited victim count and recent emergence suggest either a highly selective targeting approach or a nascent operation still developing its operational capabilities. The group has been linked to 10 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 29, 2026Atlas Metal Industries Inc listed by auroraon 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, Atlas Metal Industries Inc is reported in CA, a country with 278 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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Atlas Metal Industries Inc

Claimed by aurora · listed 21 days ago

21d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 29, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: aurora
Status: Data leaked
Country: CA
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Apr 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Atlas Metal Industries Inc. is a privately held manufacturer of commercial foodservice equipment headquartered in Miami, Florida. The company designs and fabricates stainless steel and aluminum serving line equipment—including hot, cold, refrigerated, and modular serving units—sold under product lines such as INFINITI, BL Series, and CA Series. It operates under the brand atlasfoodserv.com and serves institutional settings including K-12 schools and commercial food service environments.

Industry: Commercial Foodservice Equipment Manufacturing
Address: Miami, Florida, USA

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The exfiltration includes large-scale regulated PII (SSNs, DOBs, bank routing numbers, W-4 tax data for employees dating to 2018), plaintext and hashed credentials enabling further compromise, and full proprietary product-design and manufacturing IP — constituting confirmed exfiltration of both regulated personal financial/identity data and sensitive business data at significant scale.

The Aurora ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Atlas Metal Industries on or about April 8, 2026, with the attack identified April 22, 2026; the published dataset encompasses the complete Microsoft Dynamics GP environment including payroll databases with employee PII, SQL Server credentials, 74 GB of Autodesk Vault product-design history, CNC fabrication programs, and full SQL Server database backup chains.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Payroll records database (PYREC) — 15.8 GB
Employee SSNs, DOBs, and home addresses
Direct-deposit bank routing numbers
Salary and W-4 tax data
Payroll garnishments and check history (from 2018)
30+ SQL Server login accounts with password hashes
Active Directory domain account credentials
Autodesk Vault Professional backup — 74 GB (2019–2026 product design history)
CNC fabrication programs (laser-cutter and Amada punch-press G-code)
8 SQL Server databases with full backup chains (ATLAS, PYREC, DYNAMICS, TEST, TWO, AMIT, master, msdb, DynamicsGPSecurity)
TimeClock Plus SQL credentials in plaintext XML
Infrastructure configuration files

What the group claims

[food, metal] Atlas Metal Industries Inc. — a privately held commercial-foodservice-equipment manufacturer headquartered in Miami, Florida. The dataset is a complete Microsoft Dynamics GP environment: production databases, payroll records, system credentials, Autodesk Vault product-design backups, CNC fabrication programs, and all supporting infrastructure configuration. The exfiltration occurred on or about April 8, 2026; the attack was identified April 22, 2026. The exposed material includes: 15.8 GB of payroll-records database (PYREC) — full Employee Master with SSNs, DOBs, addresses, direct-deposit bank routing numbers, salary, W-4 tax data, garnishments, and check history dating to at least 2018. 30+ SQL Server login accounts with password hashes in a sp_help_revlogin dump — named employees, system admins (DYNSA, sa), service accounts, and Active Directory domain accounts. 74 GB of Autodesk Vault Professional backup — complete product-design history from 2019 through 2026, covering every product line Atlas Metal manufactures. Hundreds of CNC fabrication programs — laser-cutter and Amada punch-press G-code for the full catalogue of sheet-metal components. A base64-encoded SQL credential for the TimeClock Plus timekeeping system, stored in plaintext XML. 8 SQL Server databases with full backup chains — ATLAS (primary), PYREC (payroll), DYNAMICS (system), TEST (18 GB dev clone), TWO, AMIT, plus system databases (master, msdb, DynamicsGPSecurity).

Sources

Source

Indexed 21 days ago

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