Disclosure context

About AiLock

AiLock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 24 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad operational scope spanning the United States, Canada, Great Britain, China, and Germany. Based on publicly available information from security researchers, AiLock appears to focus on technology companies, consumer services, manufacturing, and public sector entities, though specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security firms. The group's relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation suggest they may be a smaller operation or newly formed entity, with no notable major campaigns or high-profile ransoms publicly reported by established threat intelligence sources. Given the March 2026 first observation date and lack of subsequent major public reporting, AiLock's current operational status and capabilities remain largely undetermined by mainstream cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 3, 2026; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 3, 2026Dallas Regional Chamber listed by AiLockon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 259 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Dallas Regional Chamber is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Dallas Regional Chamber

Claimed by AiLock · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 3, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: AiLock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Mar 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC) is a prominent business membership organization serving the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas. It champions economic growth, education and workforce development, public policy, and quality of life initiatives on behalf of its member businesses. The DRC also offers leadership programs, sponsorship opportunities, and serves as the primary business voice of the Dallas region.

Industry: Business Association & Economic Development

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is stated as published, indicating at least partial exfiltration, but no specifics on scale, sensitivity, or regulated data (e.g., PII, financial, medical) are provided in the post, limiting the severity assessment to medium.

AiLock claims to have attacked the Dallas Regional Chamber and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post provides no specific details on whether encryption or exfiltration occurred, nor the volume or nature of the data involved.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business organization records
Member information
Internal communications (inferred)

What the group claims

The Dallas Regional Chamber is a prominent business organization known for its role as the economic growth champion and business voice of the Dallas region.It focuses on priorities such as economic development, education, public policy, and quality of life.

Sources

Victim sitedallaschamber.org

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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