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PARS AR-GE

Claimed by Nightspire · listed 3 months ago

3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 3, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nightspire
Status
Data leaked
Country
Türkiye
Listed on leak site
Apr 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PARS AR-GE is a Turkish R&D and electronics manufacturing company founded in 2008 by Prof. Dr. Sarp Ertürk at Kocaeli University Technopark. The company develops and produces domestic automotive electronics including digital tachographs (Pars DT-101), smart taximeters, speed sensors, and data download devices, with products widely deployed in the field. It has also historically provided R&D services to defence industry and industrial organisations in Turkey.

Industry
Automotive Electronics & R&D (Digital Tachographs, Taximeters, IoT Devices)
Address
Kocaeli Üniversitesi Teknopark, Kocaeli, Turkey
Founded
2008

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of data includes source code for embedded/automotive systems (with defence-sector history), PII-bearing employee and customer documents, and financial records — constituting regulated personal data (KVKK) at scale alongside sensitive IP with national security relevance given the company's defence industry ties.

The Nightspire ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from PARS AR-GE, with the disclosed status indicating data has been published. The stolen data allegedly includes project source code, finance records, technical data, customer documents, and employee information.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Project source code
  • Finance records
  • Technical data
  • Customer documents
  • Employee information

What the group claims

- Project Source Code- Finance Records- Technical Data- Customer Documents- Employee Info

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About nightspire

Nightspire is a ransomware group that first emerged in March 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having targeted over 215 victims in a relatively short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Nightspire appears to employ common ransomware attack vectors targeting organizations across multiple sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and construction industries, while demonstrating a geographic preference for victims in the United States, India, Taiwan, France, and Hong Kong. The group's rapid victim acquisition rate since their March 2025 emergence suggests an active and potentially effective operational capability, though specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, or extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited public reporting from established cybersecurity organizations like CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, Nightspire remains an active threat with insufficient public documentation to fully assess their operational sophistication or organizational structure. The group has been linked to 315 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 12, 2025; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: NIGHT SPIRE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 3, 2026PARS AR-GE listed by nightspireon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nightspire

nightspire has been linked to 315 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nightspire dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, PARS AR-GE is reported in Türkiye, a country with 31 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nightspire means PARS AR-GE 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on nightspire'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.