Disclosure context

About AuditTeam

AuditTeam is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in April 2026 and appears to be financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation, though their targeting of victims primarily across China, Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand suggests possible regional focus or language capabilities in Asian markets. With only five documented victims to date, AuditTeam appears to operate as a smaller-scale ransomware operation, showing particular interest in manufacturing and technology sectors alongside unspecified target types. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited scale of operations, there are no publicly documented major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant law enforcement actions against them by agencies such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms. The group's current operational status remains unknown given the sparse public intelligence available, and their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been comprehensively documented by reputable security researchers as of available reporting. The group has been linked to 8 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2026; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: audit team.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 8, 2026Paid Victim A98A624456DA525F listed by AuditTeamon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Paid Victim A98A624456DA525F is reported in TH, a country with 45 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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Paid Victim A98A624456DA525F

Claimed by AuditTeam · listed 1 month ago

42d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 8, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: AuditTeam
Status: Data leaked
Country: TH
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Apr 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The victim is identified only by an anonymised placeholder ('Paid Victim A98A624456DA525F') and no public site content is available. The leak post indicates the entity reached a ransom payment agreement with the 'AuditTeam' group and is listed under a 'PAID / COOPERATION REACHED' status, meaning no further identifying details were published by the operator.

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The disclosed status is 'data_published' and exfiltration is implied by the group's standard methodology, but no data inventory, file count, or regulated-data categories are specified, and the victim paid, resulting in claimed data purge. Insufficient evidence to elevate to high or critical.

The AuditTeam group claims to have obtained data from the victim and states that after payment ('cooperation reached') the data was purged from their servers and security remediation was verified; no specific data types or exfiltration volumes are described in the post.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

/// DATA EXPOSURE TERMINAL /// [ DATA EXPOSURE LOGS ] [ ABOUT US ] [ CONTACT ] We audit. We alert. We disclose. Tr***ic AUDIT ID: D6A9F21B7E4C3A59 DISCOVERY DATE: 2026-05-10 [ STATUS: REMEDIATION WINDOW ] --:--:--:-- [ COOPERATION REACHED ] // DATA PURGED FROM SERVERS // SECURITY REMEDIATION VERIFIED // ENTITY COMPLIANCE CONFIRMED [ STATUS: PAID ] [ COOPERATION REACHED ] // DATA PURGED FROM SERVERS // SECURITY REMEDIATION VERIFIED // ENTITY COMPLIANCE CONFIRMED [ STATUS: PAID ] [ COOPERATION REACHED ] // DATA PURGED FROM SERVERS // SECURITY REMEDIATION VERIFIED // ENTITY COMPLIANCE CONFIRMED [ STATUS: PAID ] joycity AUDIT ID: B7E1F9A2D4C86352 DISCOVERY DATE: 2026-03-05 [ STATUS: PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY ] Kawasaki Motors Philippines Corporation AUDIT ID: 5B9F3E1A2D8C6B4E DISCOVERY DATE: 2026-02-21 [ STATUS: PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY ]

Sources

Leak posthttp://6tdqqaxftvradka5d2frzgwixis7fmro7rfh4ettzcx7jfapkebe6jad.onion/entity/A98A624456DA525F

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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