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Autohaus Malin

listed as AutohausMalin · Claimed by Chaos · listed 9 months ago

9m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 7, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Chaos
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Listed on leak site
Oct 7, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Autohaus Malin is an automotive dealership located in Sulz, Vorarlberg, Austria. Founded in 1957, it has been an authorised Renault partner since its founding and a Dacia partner since 2006. The company is known for vehicle sales and related services, emphasising reliability and customer service.

Industry
Automotive Retail & Dealership
Address
Sulz, Vorarlberg, Austria
Founded
1957

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but the leak post provides no detail on the type or scale of data involved; no regulated or large-scale sensitive data is explicitly confirmed for this SME automotive dealership.

The Chaos ransomware group claims to have attacked Autohaus Malin and has published data as indicated by the 'data_published' status, though the leak post does not explicitly detail whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it specify the volume or nature of the stolen data.

medium

What the group claims

Since 1957, Autohaus Malin has been a proud partner of the Renault brand and, since 2006, a partner of the Dacia brand. Located in Sulz, Vorarlberg, they are known for reliability and customer friendliness, thanks to their competent team and many years of experience.

Sources

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About chaos

Based on the limited publicly available information, Chaos is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in March 2025, appearing to be financially motivated given their ransom demands and targeting patterns. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their operational model and whether they operate as Ransomware-as-a-Service or as an independent entity has not been definitively established by security researchers. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities are not yet well-documented in public threat intelligence reports, though their targeting suggests they employ common initial access vectors to compromise victims across multiple sectors. Chaos has claimed 41 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, Germany, Poland, Malaysia, and Sweden, with a particular focus on technology companies, financial services, business services, and manufacturing sectors, though the scope and impact of their most significant attacks have not been widely publicized. The group currently appears to be active based on recent victim claims, though comprehensive analysis from major security firms regarding their long-term operational capabilities and potential law enforcement actions remains limited due to their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 69 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 31, 2025; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 7, 2025AutohausMalin listed by chaoson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by chaos

chaos has been linked to 69 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full chaos dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, AutohausMalin is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by chaos means AutohausMalin 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-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on chaos'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.