Ransomware victim disclosure

Active Dynamics

listed as activedynamics.com · Claimed by blackbasta · listed 1 year ago

1 TB

Data size

17m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 18, 2024
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: blackbasta
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Dec 18, 2024
Data size: 1 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Active Dynamics is a global OEM supplier specializing in emissions control, sound, power, thermal, and fluid dynamics solutions for automotive, powersports, commercial vehicles, small engines, industrial, and marine sectors. Headquartered in Toronto with 5 global locations and over 1,000 employees, the company serves 90+ OEM customers across 3 continents.

Industry: Emissions Control, Thermal & Fluid Dynamics Engineering
Address: 1865 Birchmount Road, Toronto, Ontario M1P 2J5, Canada
Employees: 1000+

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of 1 TB of sensitive data including financial records, employee PII, proprietary R&D/engineering data, and technical drawings for a manufacturing company serving critical automotive and industrial sectors. Data exposure of this scale and sensitivity poses significant business and operational risk.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 1 TB of data including financial records, employee personal data and documents, R&D/engineering test data, project files, and technical drawings. The group has published the data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial data
Employee personal data and documents
R&D and engineering test data
Product designs and technical drawings
Project files

What the group claims

Active Dynamics is a global leader in the design and manufacturing of innovative solutions focused on emissions control, sound, power, thermal, and fluid dynamics. The company serves a wide range of industries, including automotive, powersports, commercial vehicles, small engines, industrial applications, and marine sectors.SITE: www.activedynamics.com | www.activexhaust.com Address : 1865 Birchmount Road Toronto, Ontario M1P 2J5 CanadaTEL#: 1-888-918-5047ALL DATA SIZE: ≈1tb 1. Financial data 2. Personal employees data, Personal documents 3. R&D, Engeneering, Test data 4. Projects, Drawings & etc…

Sources

Victim siteactivedynamics.com
Leak posthttp://stniiomyjliimcgkvdszvgen3eaaoz55hreqqx6o77yvmpwt7gklffqd.onion/?id=activedynamics.com

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About blackbasta

Black Basta is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat actor, compromising over 500 organizations globally within its first two years of operation. The group is suspected to have ties to Russia-based cybercriminal networks and operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. Black Basta primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns, exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, and compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, then deploys custom tools and living-off-the-land techniques to move laterally through networks before deploying their ransomware payload that uses ChaCha20 encryption. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. Notable campaigns include attacks on major manufacturing companies, healthcare organizations, and critical infrastructure entities primarily across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy, with the group showing particular focus on business services, manufacturing, technology, agriculture and food production, and transportation/logistics sectors. As of 2024, Black Basta remains active and continues to evolve its tactics, techniques, and procedures while maintaining a steady pace of victim recruitment and ransom collection operations. The group has been linked to 523 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2022; most recent post January 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 18, 2024activedynamics.com listed by blackbastaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 1 TB

Other recent disclosures by blackbasta

blackbasta has been linked to 523 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent: