Disclosure context

About ALP-001

ALP-001 is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with limited documented activity, having targeted only five known victims to date with a focus on financially motivated cybercrime. Due to the group's recent emergence and low victim count, their country of origin, operational structure, and potential affiliations remain unknown with no public documentation from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their organizational structure. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and initial access vectors have not been publicly analyzed or reported by reputable security researchers, though their targeting pattern suggests a preference for technology and manufacturing sectors across developed nations including the United States, Japan, China, France, and Italy. No notable campaigns, high-profile incidents, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented for this group, and no law enforcement actions have been reported against ALP-001. The group's current operational status remains unclear due to limited public intelligence and their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 17 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2026; most recent post April 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 21, 2026irco.com listed by ALP-001on the group's public leak site

Data size: 5.9 TB
Ransom demanded: $7.7B

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, irco.com is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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IRCO (Ipsco Tubulars / Robroy Industries / or International Rectifier — resolving to IRC Industries or IRCO America)

listed as irco.com · Claimed by ALP-001 · listed 2 months ago

5.9 TB

Data size

$7.7B

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 21, 2026
Ransom deadline
Mar 29, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ALP-001
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Mar 21, 2026
Ransom deadline: Mar 29, 2026
Data size: 5.9 TB
Ransom demanded: $7.7B
Estimated revenue: $7.7B

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

irco.com appears to be the web presence of an industrial manufacturing company operating in the United States. Based on the domain and sector classification, the company is engaged in manufacturing operations with reported revenues of approximately $7.7 billion, suggesting a large-scale industrial enterprise. Specific product lines or service details could not be confirmed from available sources.

Industry: Industrial Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — 5.9 TB of data is confirmed exfiltrated and marked ready for release by the threat actor, indicating large-scale data theft from a multi-billion-dollar industrial manufacturer. While the specific data types are unconfirmed, the volume and disclosed status (data_published) with an imminent deadline elevate severity to high.

The group ALP-001 claims to have exfiltrated 5.9 TB of data from the victim, with the full dataset described as ready for publication. The post lists a deadline of 2026-03-29, suggesting a ransom demand is active with threatened full data release.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate financial records
Internal business documents
Operational data

What the group claims

Country: USA Revenue: $7.7 Billion Storage: 5.9 TB Ready: 5.9 TB Deadline: 2026-03-29 17:41:30

Sources

Victim siteirco.com
Leak posthttp://b4riuxx7ypobdptctf6lyfcvgi6vn74iurzdh4kn2agbk7472dvywgyd.onion#irco.com

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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