Disclosure context

About Metaencryptor

Metaencryptor is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographical regions. The group appears to be an independent operation rather than a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, though limited public documentation makes definitive attribution challenging regarding their specific country of origin or connections to established cybercriminal networks. Based on their targeting patterns, Metaencryptor demonstrates a preference for manufacturing organizations, business services, and transportation/logistics companies, with their operations concentrated primarily in Western nations including Germany, the United States, Canada, Spain, and the United Kingdom. With 31 documented victims since their emergence, the group represents a moderate but persistent threat in the ransomware landscape. However, due to their recent emergence and relatively lower profile compared to major ransomware families, comprehensive technical analysis of their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and specific initial access vectors has not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. The group's current operational status remains active as of available intelligence, though the limited public reporting suggests they operate with a smaller scale and lower visibility than prominent ransomware-as-a-service operations that typically attract more attention from law enforcement and security researchers. The group has been linked to 31 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 16, 2023; most recent post June 24, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 16, 2023Kraiburg Austria GmbH listed by Metaencryptoron the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $76M

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, Kraiburg Austria GmbH is reported in Austria, a country with 24 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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Kraiburg Austria GmbH

Claimed by Metaencryptor · listed 3 years ago

$76M

Ransom

demanded

33m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Aug 16, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Metaencryptor
Status: Data leaked
Country: Austria
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Aug 16, 2023
Ransom demanded: $76M
Estimated revenue: $76M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

KRAIBURG Austria GmbH & Co. KG is an Austrian rubber processing specialist headquartered in Geretsberg, Upper Austria, with over 60 years of experience. The company manufactures rubber compounds and materials for the tyre retreading and new tyre industry, hot-retreaded commercial vehicle tyres, ergonomic workplace matting, and specialty rubber products. It employs approximately 303–330 staff on-site and reported revenue of approximately €77.9 million in 2025.

Industry: Rubber Compounding & Tyre Retreading Materials
Address: Webersdorf 11, 5132 Geretsberg, Austria
Employees: 303

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration of business data from a mid-sized manufacturing company; while specific regulated data categories (PII at scale, medical, government) are not confirmed, the data_published status and $76M revenue-scale company exposure warrants a high severity rating.

The Metaencryptor group claims to have compromised Kraiburg Austria GmbH and has published data (disclosed status: data_published); the leak post cites the company's revenue of $76M (year 2021) but does not specify the volume or categories of exfiltrated data beyond the disclosure.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company financial data
Published internal files

What the group claims

Kraiburg Austria GmbH Lösungen für die Reifenrunderneuerung. Bei KRAIBURG Retreading Materials vereinen wir über 70 Jahre Erfahrung im Umgang mit Compounding mit einer qualitätsorientierten Unternehmenspolitik – unsere Basis für beste Produkte und zufriedene Kunden.Revenue: $76M Year 2021

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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