Disclosure context

About Akira

Akira is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat actor with over 1,500 documented victims. The group's country of origin remains unclear, though they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiation processes. Akira employs multi-faceted attack methodologies including exploitation of VPN vulnerabilities, particularly targeting Cisco VPN appliances, and utilizes living-off-the-land techniques along with legitimate administrative tools to avoid detection, while implementing double extortion tactics by exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy, with a particular focus on manufacturing, business services, technology, and construction sectors, though they have shown willingness to attack various industries. Despite being relatively new to the ransomware landscape, Akira has maintained consistent operations throughout 2023 and into 2024, with law enforcement agencies including CISA and FBI issuing advisories about their activities, though no major disruption operations have been publicly reported against the group as of late 2024. The group has been linked to 1,616 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 19, 2026The Decorative Paving listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 20 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 415 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Decorative Paving is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Decorative Paving Company

listed as The Decorative Paving · Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

20 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 19, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Mar 19, 2026
Data size: 20 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Decorative Paving Company specializes in the manufacturing, installation, and distribution of high-quality paving systems. The company has over twenty years of experience and has established an international reputation for its paving services. It operates in the United States and serves both domestic and international markets.

Industry: Decorative Paving Manufacturing & Installation

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 20 GB including PII (passports, driver's licenses) and sensitive business/financial data; data publication has been announced, indicating significant employee and corporate exposure.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 20 GB of corporate data, including employee personal information (passports, driver's licenses, HR files), project records, and financial documents, with publication of the data described as imminent.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports
Employee driver's licenses
HR files
Project records
Financial documents

What the group claims

Decorative Paving Company specializes in the manufacturing, insta llation, and distribution of high-quality paving systems. With ov er twenty years of experience, the company has established a stro ng international reputation for excellence in its services. We will upload 20gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal inf ormation (passports, DLs and other HR files), projects, financial s and so on.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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