Disclosure context

About Moneymessage

Moneymessage is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major security agencies, detailed information about their origin and affiliations remains largely unknown, though their targeting patterns suggest they may operate as a smaller independent operation rather than a large-scale RaaS model. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across healthcare, business services, public sector, government, and financial organizations, with their 29 documented victims spanning geographically diverse regions including the United States, Italy, Argentina, Bangladesh, and Russia, though specific attack methodologies and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks attributed to Moneymessage have not been widely reported by established security researchers or law enforcement agencies, likely due to the group's relatively recent emergence and smaller scale of operations compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group appears to remain active as of available reporting, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status is limited by the lack of detailed public documentation from authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. The group has been linked to 32 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 29, 2023; most recent post May 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: money message.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 3, 2023Aiphone listed by Moneymessageon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Aiphone is reported in Japan, a country with 108 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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Aiphone

Claimed by Moneymessage · listed 3 years ago

33m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 3, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Moneymessage
Status: Data leaked
Country: Japan
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 3, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Aiphone is a Japan-headquartered manufacturer and global leader in intercom systems and access control products, serving over 200,000 organisations worldwide with more than 3 million secured entry points. The company offers IP video intercoms, emergency communication towers, cloud-based access control, and integrated security solutions across commercial, healthcare, education, and multi-family sectors. Its products are distributed globally with a particularly strong presence in North America.

Industry: Security Intercoms & Access Control

Attack summary

Severity: high — Aiphone is a critical security infrastructure provider (intercoms and access control for healthcare, schools, corporate campuses, government-adjacent facilities). A confirmed data publication by a ransomware group against such a company poses significant risk of exposure of sensitive business data, customer/partner information, and potentially product/security architecture details that could endanger physical security deployments.

The Moneymessage ransomware group claims to have attacked Aiphone and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the specific leak post content was not captured and details on encryption or the exact nature of exfiltrated data are unavailable from the provided material.

high

Sources

Victim siteaiphone.com
Leak posthttp://blogvl7tjyjvsfthobttze52w36wwiz34hrfcmorgvdzb6hikucb7aqd.onion/news.php?id=1

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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