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Urban Import

Claimed by Cryptnet · listed 3 years ago

39m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 19, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Cryptnet
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Automotive
Listed on leak site
Apr 19, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Urban Import is a US-based online retailer of aftermarket automotive parts and performance accessories, founded in 2001 by automotive enthusiasts. The company established itself as an eBay Power Seller before launching its own retail website, and expanded by securing the exclusive North American distributorship of the D2 Racing brand.

Industry
Aftermarket Automotive Parts & Performance Accessories
Founded
2001

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been marked as published, indicating some level of confirmed disclosure, but no specifics on data type, volume, or sensitivity are provided in the post, and no regulated/sensitive data categories are confirmed.

Cryptnet claims to have compromised Urban Import and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, and no ransom amount or data volume is stated.

medium

What the group claims

Urban Import was established in 2001 by fellow automotive enthusiasts to provide customers with an unrivaled selection of top quality aftermarket automotive parts. After cementing our presence as an eBay Power Seller, we launched our first online retail site carrying some of the top performance brands of the time. As the aftermarket performance industry began to boom, Urban Import focused on expanding its lineup by securing exclusive distributorship of the D2 Racing brand in North America....

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years 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 Cryptnet

Cryptnet is a relatively obscure ransomware group that first emerged in April 2023, appearing to be financially motivated based on their operational pattern of targeting organizations for ransom payments. Due to the limited public documentation available from major cybersecurity organizations and law enforcement agencies, details regarding their country of origin, affiliations, and operational structure remain unclear, though their small victim count of two documented cases suggests they operate as a minor player in the ransomware ecosystem rather than a large-scale Ransomware-as-a-Service operation. The group's attack methodology, technical capabilities, and specific tools used have not been extensively documented by reputable security researchers, likely due to their limited scope of operations and relatively recent emergence in the threat landscape. No major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported in connection with Cryptnet operations. Given the lack of recent public reporting and their minimal documented activity since emergence, their current operational status remains uncertain. The group has been linked to 2 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 19, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 19, 2023Urban Import listed by Cryptneton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Cryptnet

Cryptnet has been linked to 2 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 Automotive sector, which has 101 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Urban Import is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Cryptnet means Urban Import 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Cryptnet'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.