Was Katcon Global hit by ransomware?

Katcon Global was listed by the crypto24 ransomware operation (Mexico), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the crypto24 ransomware group?

crypto24 is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Katcon Global breach?

crypto24 published data attributed to Katcon Global. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Katcon Global

Claimed by Crypto24 · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 2, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Crypto24
Status: Data leaked
Country: Mexico
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Apr 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Katcon Global is a global Tier 1 automotive supplier founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico. The company specializes in exhaust and aftertreatment systems, thermal insulation, and composite solutions for automotive and mobility OEMs. It operates manufacturing facilities and R&D centers across multiple continents including Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas.

Industry: Automotive Exhaust & Thermal Systems Manufacturing
Address: Av. Manuel Ordóñez 601, Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, 66350, Mexico
Founded: 1993

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), confirming exfiltration and release of business data from a significant Tier 1 global automotive supplier; however, no specific regulated or personal data types (e.g. PII at scale, medical, financial) are confirmed, placing this at high rather than critical.

The ransomware group crypto24 claims to have attacked Katcon Global and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating exfiltration and publication of company data. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the leak post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Undisclosed company data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

"Katcon Global" is a prominent automotive supplier, specialized in the field of developing, designing, and manufacturing advanced vehicle exhaust systems. Established in 1993 in Mexico, the company has now expanded worldwide at multiple locations, including Europe, Asia, Australia, and America. Besides exhaust systems, Katcon also provides solutions in energy recovery and sustainability sectors.

Sources

Victim sitekatcon.com

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About crypto24

Crypto24 is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2025, with a primary financial motivation evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple geographic regions. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting pattern suggests either independent operations or a new ransomware-as-a-service offering given the diverse geographic spread of their 43 documented victims. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not yet been thoroughly documented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of technology, financial services, healthcare, and business services sectors indicates they likely employ common initial access vectors such as phishing or exploitation of public-facing applications to gain entry into victim networks. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in the United States while also conducting operations across Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, as well as extending their reach to Egypt, suggesting either a globally distributed affiliate network or opportunistic targeting based on vulnerable infrastructure discovery. Crypto24 remains active as of the latest available intelligence reporting, though given their recent emergence, comprehensive details about their specific tactics, techniques, and procedures await further analysis by established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 2, 2026Katcon Global listed by crypto24on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by crypto24

crypto24 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Katcon Global is reported in Mexico, a country with 70 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by crypto24 means Katcon Global 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-MX (Mexico), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on crypto24'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.