Disclosure context

About nightspire

Nightspire is a ransomware group that first emerged in March 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having targeted over 215 victims in a relatively short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Nightspire appears to employ common ransomware attack vectors targeting organizations across multiple sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and construction industries, while demonstrating a geographic preference for victims in the United States, India, Taiwan, France, and Hong Kong. The group's rapid victim acquisition rate since their March 2025 emergence suggests an active and potentially effective operational capability, though specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, or extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited public reporting from established cybersecurity organizations like CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, Nightspire remains an active threat with insufficient public documentation to fully assess their operational sophistication or organizational structure. The group has been linked to 265 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 12, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 18, 2026TAKOSAN OTOMOBIL listed by nightspireon the group's public leak site

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, TAKOSAN OTOMOBIL is reported in TR, a country with 27 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Takosan Otomobil Göstergeleri San. ve Tic. A.Ş.

listed as TAKOSAN OTOMOBIL · Claimed by nightspire · listed 2 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 18, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: nightspire
Status: Data leaked
Country: TR
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 18, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Takosan is a Nursanlar Group company and a leading Turkish automotive supplier with over 40 years of experience. The company manufactures instrument clusters, fuel sensor units, display instruments, tachographs, and plastic parts, operating across three facilities totalling 14,300 m² in Turkey and Romania with 315 employees. It supplies major OEMs including Renault, Ford, Toyota, and others, producing over one million instrument clusters annually.

Industry: Automotive Instrumentation & Electronic Components Manufacturing
Address: Taysad-Gebze (head office); Tepeören, Istanbul (plastic injection plant); Romania (instrument cluster assembly plant)
Employees: 315

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of significant business data including financial records, contracts, and strategic documents from an established automotive supplier with major OEM clients; no regulated personal data at scale is explicitly confirmed but business-sensitive data exposure is substantial.

The Nightspire ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Takosan, publishing technical documents, financial sheets, contracts and invoices, and business strategy files. No ransom amount or data volume was stated, but the disclosure status indicates data has been published.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Technical documents
Financial sheets
Contracts and invoices
Business strategy files

What the group claims

- Technical Documents- Financial Sheets- Contracts & Invoices- Business strategy files

Sources

Victim sitewww.takosan.com.tr/en

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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