Disclosure context

About Abyss

Abyss is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on English-speaking countries. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Their attack methodology and specific tools have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their victim profile of 87 organizations indicates they employ effective initial access techniques to compromise business services, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. The group demonstrates a clear geographic preference for targets in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, suggesting either language preferences or specific regional access capabilities. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively limited public documentation from established security researchers, detailed information about notable campaigns, encryption methods, or law enforcement actions remains scarce. Abyss appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the lack of extensive public analysis by major threat intelligence organizations suggests they may operate at a smaller scale compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group has been linked to 98 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2023; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 16, 2026Technic Inc. listed by Abysson the group's public leak site

Data size: 29 GB
Ransom demanded: $50

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Technic Inc. is reported in US, a country with 2,713 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Technic Inc.

Claimed by Abyss · listed 5 days ago

29 GB

Data size

$50

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

Listed
May 16, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Abyss
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: US
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 16, 2026
Data size: 29 GB
Ransom demanded: $50

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Technic Inc. is an international supplier of electroplating chemicals, equipment, and analytical control tools, founded in 1944 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The company serves a broad range of industries including semiconductor, printed circuit board, industrial finishing, decorative, medical, and energy technologies. It operates globally with a portfolio spanning specialty chemistry, automated plating systems, and process control instrumentation.

Industry: Specialty Electroplating Chemicals & Equipment
Address: Woonsocket, Rhode Island, US
Founded: 1944

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The group has announced the listing and claims data will be published later, but no exfiltrated data or proof files have been released yet. The company handles specialty industrial chemistry for sensitive sectors (semiconductor, medical, defence-adjacent), raising potential impact, but the current disclosure is listing-only with a stated intent to publish — warranting medium rather than low given the credible future threat.

The Abyss ransomware group listed Technic Inc. on its leak site, claiming passwords and data will be published at a later date. No data size or proof files have been released yet; the post includes only a filelist link with no active download.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unspecified company data (pending publication)

What the group claims

Founded in 1944 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Technic Inc. is an international supplier of electroplating chemicals and equipment.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

```
let data = [
{
        'title' : 'technic.com',
        'short' : 'technic.com ',
        'full' : 'Technic <br>' +
                 'Founded in 1944 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Technic Inc. is an international supplier of electroplating chemicals and equipment.<br>'+
            'password and data will be published later<br>'+
            'Link â„–1 Filelist',
        'links' : [


        ]
},
{
        'title' : 'thinlinetech.com',
        'short' : 'thinlinetech.com 29Gb uncompressed data',
        'full' : 'Thinline Technologies <br>' +
                 'Thinline Technologies offers reliable IT consulting and expert computer and network support services to businesses in the Baltimore metro area.<br> They specialize in network administration, technology planning, and help desk services, focusing on increasing productivity and profitability for small to mid-size businesses.<br>'+
            'password: 6oGfyIRISQmmI3Ge2kEeyu7hbzONONEFpkcnhC1S4Ygk4iSpw4RRxDXY1uk9xeyUXOmg7UOuZvGekRc9cs8E61LWKdI08uv0kUyC4V6YxaETtrhniAtKD9t7FQ2qTFYi<br>'+
            'Link â„–1 Filelist',
        'links' : [
            "http://zngbsq66uwem4qzyxpqb5rjo2xebnbwdku27nhmquryx6ljnb…

Data the group says was taken

passwords
data

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Victim sitetechnic.com
Leak posthttp://3ev4metjirohtdpshsqlkrqcmxq6zu3d7obrdhglpy5jpbr7whmlfgqd.onion/static/data.js

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Abyss

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Sector and geography

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At a glance

About the victim

Attack summary

Data the group says was taken

What the group claims

The leak post

Data the group says was taken

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

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