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KOLBUS

Claimed by Payouts King · listed 1 year ago

12m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 7, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Payouts King
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Jul 7, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

KOLBUS is an international manufacturer of machines and tools for bookbinders, print shops, and packaging companies, headquartered in Germany. The company produces packaging production lines, bookbinding systems, luxury packaging equipment, and offers spare parts, conversions, and upgrades. Established in 1775, KOLBUS has a long history in the printing and packaging machinery industry.

Industry
Packaging & Bookbinding Machinery Manufacturing
Founded
1775

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published and the disclosure status is confirmed, but no proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory details are provided in the leak post. No sensitive regulated data categories are explicitly mentioned.

The payoutsking group claims to have breached KOLBUS and published data. The leak post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what categories of data are at stake.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

KOLBUS is a leading international manufacturer of machines and tools for bookbinders, print shops, and packaging companies. Headquartered in Germany, the company’s innovative solutions include packaging production lines, bookbinding systems, and luxury packaging. Additionally, KOLBUS offers spare parts, conversions, and upgrades services for its machinery. Established in 1775, the company has a rich history and significant experience in the printing and packaging industry.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 7, 2025KOLBUS listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

Payouts King has been linked to 100 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 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, KOLBUS is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means KOLBUS 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 Payouts King'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.