Was Unknown Munich metalworking company hit by ransomware?

Unknown Munich metalworking company was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (Germany) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the safepay ransomware group?

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Unknown Munich metalworking company

Claimed by Safepay · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedJun 11, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: Germany
Sector: Manufacturing/Metalworking
Listed on leak site: Jun 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

A Munich-based metalworking company founded in 1966 as an artistic metalworking workshop that later expanded into woodworking and plastics manufacturing. The company has operated for nearly 60 years in the German manufacturing sector.

Industry: Artistic & Industrial Metalworking
Address: Munich, Germany
Founded: 1966

Attack summary

Severity: low — Company is only listed/announced with no proof of compromise provided, no confirmed data exfiltration stated, and no operational impact described.

SafePay ransomware group claims to have compromised the company and listed it on their disclosure site. No specific details about data exfiltration, encryption, or proof materials are provided in the post.

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What the group claims

The company was originally founded in Munich in 1966 as an artistic metalworking workshop and later expanded into woodworking, plastics and other materials.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

# SafePay ransomware has never provided and does not provide the RaaS
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Founded in 2000, the company specializes in website development, digital adver…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Unknown Munich metalworking company

Sources

Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 592 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post June 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 11, 2026Unknown Munich metalworking company listed by safepayon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 592 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/Metalworking sector. Geographically, Unknown Munich metalworking company is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means Unknown Munich metalworking company appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 safepay'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.