Was Klüber Lubrication hit by ransomware?

Klüber Lubrication was listed by the Payouts King ransomware operation (Germany), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Payouts King ransomware group?

Payouts King is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Klüber Lubrication breach?

Payouts King published data attributed to Klüber Lubrication. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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KLÜBER Elektroanlagenbau GmbH

listed as Klüber Lubrication · Claimed by Payouts King · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 24, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Payouts King
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Nov 24, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

KLÜBER Elektroanlagenbau GmbH is a German electrical engineering company based in Dresden, with additional locations in Freiberg, Mulda, Magdeburg, and Heilbronn. The company operates in the electrotechnical sector, providing electrical installation and systems services to customers across multiple German cities. It has been in operation for approximately 30 years according to its website.

Industry: Electrical Engineering & Installation Services
Address: Dresden, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Status is listed as data_published, indicating some disclosure has occurred, but no data volume, data type, or proof files are described, and the threat actor's post contains AI-generated content misidentifying the victim, reducing confidence in the scope and authenticity of the claimed breach.

The group 'payoutsking' claims to have compromised KLÜBER Elektroanlagenbau GmbH and has published data; the leak post description is AI-generated and incorrectly describes Klüber Lubrication rather than the actual victim, indicating low-quality threat actor attribution. No specific data categories, volume, or encryption claims are described in the post.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Klüber Lubrication is a German-based company specializing in the development, production, and distribution of high-quality lubricants for a wide array of industries. These range from automotive and rail to wind energy and food & beverages. With a longstanding history, Klüber Lubrication is well-known for its innovative, efficient, and environmentally-friendly specialties that cater to specific customer requirements. Its services also include comprehensive consultation and support.

Sources

Victim siteklueber-elektro.de
Leak posthttps:/payoutsgn7cy6uliwevdqspncjpfxpmzgirwl2au65la7rfs5x3qnbqd.onion/post/5qgLmp6Wa2HxPmaQi53v

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 24, 2025Klüber Lubrication listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

Payouts King has been linked to 100 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Klüber Lubrication is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means Klüber Lubrication 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, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Payouts King'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.