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Strategic Imports

Claimed by Medusa · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 5, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Medusa
Status
Data leaked
Country
Australia
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
May 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Strategic Imports is an Australian importer and distributor of automotive parts and batteries, operating under multiple retail brands including Auto Parts Now and Discount Batteries Now. The company appears to be a small-to-medium enterprise serving the Australian automotive aftermarket. No public website content was available to further characterise its scale or locations.

Industry
Automotive Parts & Batteries Import

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration from a NAS device likely containing business records, potentially including customer, financial, or operational data. Although no regulated PII at scale is explicitly confirmed, the publication of exfiltrated data from a business NAS elevates severity to high.

MedusaLocker claims to have exfiltrated data from the company's QNAP NAS device (CACHEDEV1_DATA), with the disclosure status listed as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released or made available.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • QNAP NAS filesystem contents (CACHEDEV1_DATA volume)
  • User account data (bstuart / Brad Stuart)
  • Potentially business/operational files from NAS storage

What the group claims

Australian auto parts/batteries importer. Brands: Strategic Imports, Auto Parts Now, Discount Batteries Now. User: bstuart (Brad Stuart). QNAP NAS (CACHEDEV1_DATA).

The leak post

captured from the group's site
File Manager File Manager home page BARAAAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAPAMAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAUARAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAVADAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAVACAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAVAQAI Data is being prepared for publication. Raycolighting DEMO 3137 S Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90058, USA $10 000 Organization with 2 emails extracted. Domain: raycolighting.com baralai Data is being prepared for publication. CEAGESP / Netfeirasp DEMO São Paulo, Brazil $20 000 Brazilian produce wholesale market network. Domain netfeirasp.ceagesp (CEAGESP). Also demarchibrasil.com.br accounts. Colegio María Inmaculada (CMI) DEMO Moravia, San José, Costa Rica $50000 Catholic school in Moravia, Costa Rica. Domain cmi.local / mariainmaculada.ed.cr. Servers: CMI-DC01, CMI-APP, CMI-HTTP2, main-server1/2. Académie de Montpellier / CSJM DEMO Béziers, Occitanie, France $15000 French public school network. Domain CSJM.BEZIERS, part of Académie de Montpellier (ac-montpellier.fr). Occitanie region (laregion.fr). Teacher and admin staff credentials. Palmers Relocations DEMO Victoria, Australia $63 000 Australian …

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Medusa

Medusa, also known as MedusaLocker, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022 and has since compromised 568 known victims across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a documented Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Medusa primarily targets organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Australia, with a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, employing typical ransomware tactics including data encryption and likely exfiltration for double extortion purposes, though specific technical methodologies and initial access vectors have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports. While the group has maintained a relatively high victim count since its emergence, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or major ransom demands has not been widely reported by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, Medusa appears to remain active in the threat landscape, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 635 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: MedusaLocker, MEDUSA LOCKER.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 5, 2026Strategic Imports listed by Medusaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Medusa

Medusa has been linked to 635 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Medusa dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Strategic Imports is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Medusa means Strategic Imports 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Medusa'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.