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Davin Industries Ltd

Claimed by Blackbyte · listed 4 years ago

46m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 11, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackbyte
Status
Data leaked
Country
New Zealand
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Sep 11, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Davin Industries Ltd is a New Zealand-based precision sheetmetal fabrication and contract batch manufacturing company operating since 1962. The company operates from a well-equipped facility in Christchurch and is certified to ISO9001, handling work ranging from prototypes to volume production runs. It is recognised as an industry leader in its sector within New Zealand.

Industry
Precision Sheetmetal Fabrication & Contract Manufacturing
Address
Christchurch, New Zealand
Founded
1962

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the ransomware group (data_published status), confirming exfiltration and public release of company data. While the specific data types are not enumerated in the post, published exfiltration by a known ransomware group constitutes confirmed significant data exposure warranting a high severity rating.

Blackbyte claims to have compromised Davin Industries Ltd and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify whether encryption occurred or detail the volume of exfiltrated data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business operational data
  • Manufacturing/production records
  • Customer order information
  • Quality management documentation

What the group claims

Since starting business in 1962, Davin Industries has earned an enviable reputation as an industry leader in precision sheetmetal fabrication and contract batch manufacturing.Operating from one of New Zealand's best-equipped sheetmetal fabrication facilities, Davin combines state-of-the-art production technology with craftsmanship to complete assignments ranging from prototypes through to volume production runs. The Christchurch facility is registered to ISO9001 and applies quality management principles from receipt of order through to delivery of finished goods.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blackbyte

BlackByte is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that emerged in October 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group is suspected to operate from Russia or former Soviet states based on their use of Russian-language forums and avoidance of targeting organizations in Commonwealth of Independent States countries, though they maintain no confirmed links to other established ransomware families. BlackByte operators typically gain initial access through vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of remote desktop protocol (RDP) services, employing tools such as Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and data exfiltration before deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses AES-256 encryption with RSA-2048 key protection. The group has demonstrated particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors, with the FBI and CISA issuing joint advisories in February 2022 highlighting attacks against organizations in government, healthcare, manufacturing, and education sectors, including notable incidents affecting San Francisco's transportation authority and multiple healthcare systems across the United States. BlackByte remains active as of 2024, continuing to evolve their tactics and maintain their leak site for publishing stolen data from victims who refuse to pay ransoms. The group has been linked to 147 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 4, 2021; most recent post July 30, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 11, 2022Davin Industries Ltd listed by Blackbyteon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blackbyte

Blackbyte has been linked to 147 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Davin Industries Ltd is reported in New Zealand, a country with 11 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blackbyte means Davin Industries Ltd 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 NZ (New Zealand), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Blackbyte'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.