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AVK Group

listed as avkvalves.com · Claimed by Settra · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 21, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Settra
Status
Data leaked
Country
Sweden
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Aug 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AVK Group is a privately owned international industrial manufacturer established in 1941, headquartered in Denmark. With over 5,500 employees across 100+ companies worldwide, AVK develops and produces valves, hydrants, and accessories for water and gas distribution, wastewater treatment, and fire protection. The group operates globally with annual turnover of approximately 1,259 million EUR.

Industry
Industrial Valves & Hydrants Manufacturing
Address
Skovby, Galten, Denmark
Employees
5500
Founded
1941

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post is incomplete and inaccessible (cookie requirement error). No proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory is evident. Without confirmation of actual data exfiltration or operational disruption details, this appears to be a listing/announcement only.

The Settra group claims to have published data from AVK Group. However, the leak post content provided is incomplete and does not clearly specify what data was exfiltrated, whether systems were encrypted, or what specific information is at stake.

low

What the group claims

Investigation: Belgicast Internacional S.L. Executive Summary An analysis of more than 10,000 intern...

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Sources

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About settra

Settra is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, having claimed at least 11 victims within a relatively short operational window. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time, detailed technical attribution remains unconfirmed. Their targeting pattern shows a geographic concentration in the United States, Taiwan, Portugal, Singapore, and Canada, suggesting an opportunistic rather than narrowly focused regional strategy. Affected sectors include Consumer Services, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics, and Agriculture and Food Production, indicating the group does not restrict itself to a single vertical and likely prioritizes target accessibility over sector-specific expertise. No publicly documented information is currently available to confirm their country of origin, RaaS affiliation, specific initial access vectors, encryption methodology, or extortion tactics, and no major law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly reported as of this writing. Given their nascent operational timeline and limited victim count, Settra should be considered an emerging threat actor warranting continued monitoring as their tactics, techniques, and procedures become better characterized through future incident reporting and threat intelligence disclosures. The group has been linked to 47 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 28, 2026; most recent post August 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 21, 2026avkvalves.com listed by settraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by settra

settra has been linked to 47 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, avkvalves.com is reported in Sweden, a country with 18 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by settra means avkvalves.com 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-SE (Sweden), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on settra'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.