Disclosure context

About akira

Akira is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat actor with over 1,500 documented victims. The group's country of origin remains unclear, though they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiation processes. Akira employs multi-faceted attack methodologies including exploitation of VPN vulnerabilities, particularly targeting Cisco VPN appliances, and utilizes living-off-the-land techniques along with legitimate administrative tools to avoid detection, while implementing double extortion tactics by exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy, with a particular focus on manufacturing, business services, technology, and construction sectors, though they have shown willingness to attack various industries. Despite being relatively new to the ransomware landscape, Akira has maintained consistent operations throughout 2023 and into 2024, with law enforcement agencies including CISA and FBI issuing advisories about their activities, though no major disruption operations have been publicly reported against the group as of late 2024. The group has been linked to 1,616 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 30, 2026ATF Aerospace listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

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, ATF Aerospace is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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ATF Aerospace

Claimed by akira · listed 21 days ago

20d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 30, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Apr 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ATF Aerospace specializes in aerospace manufacturing and distribution, supplying high-quality mechanical and electrical components sourced from leading manufacturers. Their manufacturing capabilities center on CNC milling and lathe operations, with an emphasis on short production runs and rapid turnaround projects. They serve major aerospace clients including Boeing.

Industry: Aerospace Components Manufacturing & Distribution

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The claimed exfiltration includes regulated PII at scale (passports, SSNs, driver's licenses), confidential aerospace client data involving Boeing and defence-adjacent projects, and NDAs/contracts — constituting a critical exposure of both personal regulated data and sensitive national-security-adjacent intellectual property.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 45 GB of corporate data, including employee personal identification documents, client files related to Boeing and other confidential aerospace projects, contracts, NDAs, and insurance files, with publication of the data described as imminent.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports
Employee Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
Employee driver's licenses
Client information (Boeing files and other confidential projects)
Project specifications
Contracts and agreements
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
Insurance files

What the group claims

ATF Aerospace specializes in aerospace manufacturing and distribution, offering high-quality me chanical and electrical components sourced from leading manufacturers. Their manufacturing capa bilities focus on CNC milling and lathe operations, emphasizing short runs and quick turnaround projects. We will upload 45gb of corporate data soon. Detailed employee personal documents (passports, SS Ns, DLs and so on), client information (BOEING files again and other confidential projects and specification), contracts and agreements, insurance files, NDAs, etc.

Source

Indexed 21 days ago

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