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Chevalier Machinery Inc.

Claimed by Beast · listed 3 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 29, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Beast
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
May 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Chevalier Machinery Inc. is a manufacturing company operating a 35,000 square foot facility focused on component production, R&D, and engineering prototyping services. The company holds ISO 9001:2008 and SGS quality certifications.

Industry
Precision Manufacturing & Engineering

Attack summary

Severity: low — Listing only with no evidence of data exfiltration, operational disruption, or proof files published. Ransom amount appears implausibly low ($23.83), suggesting this may be a placeholder or low-confidence claim.

The beast group claims to have compromised Chevalier Machinery Inc. and listed the company on their leak site. No specific data exfiltration or encryption details are disclosed in the available post excerpt.

low

What the group claims

Conducts all manufacturing, R&D, engineering, prototyping in a 35,000 square foot facility. Certified to ISO 9001:2008 and SGS standard.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Chevalier Machinery Inc. conducts all manufacturing, R&D, engineering, prototyping, in our 35,000 square foot facility. We take pride in the highest quality components and economical prices we bring to our customers, and we are proud to have a quality system that is certified to the ISO 9001:2008 and SGS standard. . Email us for any questions you might have and we are always glad to be in contact.

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Chevalier Machinery Inc.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About beast

The Beast ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations through their ransomware campaigns. With limited public documentation available from major security agencies, the group has demonstrated activity primarily targeting victims across the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea, and Argentina, accumulating approximately 65 known victims since their emergence. Their targeting pattern shows a focus on healthcare organizations, manufacturing companies, educational institutions, and construction firms, suggesting an opportunistic approach rather than highly specialized sector expertise. The group's recent emergence means there is insufficient public intelligence from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other established security researchers regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities. Given the timeline of their first observation in mid-2025, Beast represents an active and emerging threat with their current operational status remaining unclear due to limited threat intelligence reporting from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 106 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post August 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 29, 2026Chevalier Machinery Inc. listed by beaston the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by beast

beast has been linked to 106 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 3,692 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Chevalier Machinery Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by beast means Chevalier Machinery Inc. 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on beast'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.