Disclosure context

About Knight

Knight is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on targeting critical infrastructure and high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With 48 known victims since their emergence, Knight has shown a preference for targeting organizations across the United States, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Germany, with particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, media, and government sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though their targeting of healthcare and government entities suggests they employ effective initial access techniques and likely utilize double extortion tactics common among contemporary ransomware groups. While specific notable campaigns have not been widely publicized by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's consistent activity across multiple countries and high-value sectors indicates sustained operational capability. Knight appears to remain active as of current reporting, though detailed technical analysis and specific law enforcement actions against the group have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 6, 2023; most recent post February 12, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 13, 2023Akir Metal San Tic Ltd ti was hacked. All confidential information was stolen listed by Knighton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Akir Metal San Tic Ltd ti was hacked. All confidential information was stolen is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 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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Akım Metal San. Tic. Ltd. Şti.

listed as Akir Metal San Tic Ltd ti was hacked. All confidential information was stolen · Claimed by Knight · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 13, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Knight
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Dec 13, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Akım Metal is a Turkish manufacturer based in Tuzla, Istanbul, producing precision metal parts via machining and metal injection moulding for the automotive, home appliance, industrial motor, aerospace, and defence industries. Founded in 1974, the company has over 50 years of production experience and operates an R&D Centre accredited by the Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology since 2011. It is a subsidiary of the A Grup conglomerate.

Industry: Precision Metal Parts Manufacturing (Automotive, Home Appliance, Motor, Aerospace & Defence)
Address: 7 Esot Sanayi Sitesi L Blok No, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey
Founded: 1974

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated personal data (PII), financial records, insurance data, defence/aerospace-related engineering and R&D documents, and customer NDAs at a company serving defence and aerospace supply chains; data is stated as published, representing a critical disclosure of both commercially sensitive and potentially regulated information.

The Knight ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated a broad range of confidential data from Akım Metal's network, including NDA documents, personal data, insurance records, financial documents, engineering information, patents, R&D documents, and confidential customer and employee data; no encryption claim is explicitly stated, and the data is described as already published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

NDA documents
Personal data
Insurance data
Financial documents
Engineering information
Patents and technological developments
R&D documents
Confidential customer information
Employee and management correspondence
Internal company data

What the group claims

Who is akir Metal San Tic Ltd tiAkım Metal produces metal parts in Istanbul for automotive, home appliance, motor, aircraft and defense industries using machining and metal injectionmethods with over 40 years of experience. Since 2011 our R&D Center has been developing projects under Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology'sincentives to create new products, to create differentiation at the market and in order to increase R&D activities and invest in R&D related business areas.Headquarters: 7 Esot Sanayi̇ Si̇tesi̇ L Blok No, Istanbul, Istanbul, TurkeyPhone Number: +90 2126715129Website: www.akimmetal.com.trAkir Metal is one of the most dangerous companies to cooperate with in Turkey. Akım Metal's network has a huge number of vulnerabilities that are not patched and can be used to attack the company's customers and steal confidential data.We have deeply studied Akım Metal's network and claim that cooperation with this company can lead to hacking of all its customers at any moment. Data has been stolen:- NDA documents- Personal data- Insurance data- Financial Documents- Engineering information- Patents, technological developments and RND documents- Confidential customer information- Employee and management correspondence and internal dataAnd other critical documents of the company and its customers.

Sources

Victim siteakimmetal.com.tr

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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