Was Noroaco - Ferro e Aco hit by ransomware?

Noroaco - Ferro e Aco was listed by the beast ransomware operation (Brazil) 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.

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Noroaco - Ferro e Aco

Claimed by Beast · listed 2 months ago

$23.83

Ransom

demanded

55d

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedMay 21, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Beast
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: Brazil
Sector: Manufacturing/Steel
Listed on leak site: May 21, 2026
Ransom demanded: $23.83

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Noroaco - Ferro e Aco is a Brazilian steel manufacturer with over 16 years of experience specializing in high-quality steel products including tubes, beams, tiles, sheets, and plasma cutting services. The company serves wholesale and retail markets across agribusiness, construction, metallurgy, and locksmithing sectors.

Industry: Steel Manufacturing & Metal Products

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post contains only listing and generic company description with no proof files, no confirmation of data exfiltration, no encryption claim, and no stated operational impact.

The beast group lists Noroaco - Ferro e Aco as a victim but provides no detail on attack methodology, data exfiltration, or operational impact in the disclosed post.

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What the group claims

Noroaco - Ferro e Aco specializes in a diverse range of high-quality steel products including tubes, beams, tiles, sheets, and plasma cutting services. With over sixteen years of experience, the company serves clients from various sectors such as agribusiness, construction, metallurgy, and locksmithing. They source steel from the country's leading steel mills and cater to both wholesale and retail markets.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Noroaco - Ferro e Aco specializes in a diverse range of high-quality steel products including tubes, beams, tiles, sheets, and plasma cutting services. With over sixteen years of experience, the company serves clients from various sectors such as agribusiness, construction, metallurgy, and locksmithing. They ensure excellence in every step of production by investing in team training and modern equipment, sourcing steel from the country's leading steel mills. Noroaco caters to both wholesale and retail markets, providing tailored solutions for clients' steel project needs.

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Noroaco - Ferro e Aco

Sources

Leak posthttp://beast6azu4f7fxjakiayhnssybibsgjnmy77a6duufqw5afjzfjhzuqd.onion/card/noroaco

Source

Indexed 2 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 104 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 21, 2026Noroaco - Ferro e Aco listed by beaston the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $23.83

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing/Steel sector. Geographically, Noroaco - Ferro e Aco is reported in Brazil, a country with 404 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by beast means Noroaco - Ferro e Aco 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.br (Brazil), 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.