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Paul Langen GmbH & Co. KG

listed as speditionlangen.de · Claimed by Mallox · listed 2 years ago

27m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 9, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Mallox
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site
Apr 9, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Paul Langen GmbH & Co. KG is a family-owned German logistics and freight forwarding company established in 1883. Operating for over 135 years, they provide national and international transportation services, including partial and full-load shipments, distribution logistics, warehousing, and relocation services across Europe.

Industry
Transportation & Logistics
Address
Hocksteiner Weg 50, 41189 Mönchengladbach, Germany
Founded
1883

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published by Mallox with disclosed status, but no proof files, data size, ransom demand, or specific sensitive data categories are documented. The victim is a logistics company handling commercial shipment and client data; moderate business sensitivity assumed.

Mallox claims to have compromised Paul Langen's systems and published data. No specific details on exfiltration scope or encryption status are provided in the available post.

medium

What the group claims

Description not available

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Mallox

**Overview:** Mallox is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, operating as a relatively new player in the ransomware ecosystem with a focus on extracting monetary payments from victim organizations across multiple industry sectors. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service operation. **Attack Methodology:** Limited public documentation exists regarding Mallox's specific attack vectors and technical capabilities, though their successful compromise of 49 documented victims suggests they employ conventional ransomware deployment methods including data encryption and likely extortion tactics to pressure victims into payment. **Notable Campaigns:** Mallox has demonstrated a preference for targeting technology companies, business services, and manufacturing sectors, with their operations showing particular concentration in the United Kingdom, India, and the United States, though specific high-profile incidents have not been widely publicized by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. **Current Status:** The group remains active as of recent threat intelligence reporting, continuing to conduct ransomware operations across their preferred geographic and sectoral targets. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 15, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 9, 2024speditionlangen.de listed by Malloxon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Mallox

Mallox has been linked to 49 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, speditionlangen.de is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Mallox means speditionlangen.de 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Mallox'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.