Disclosure context

About aurora

Aurora is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations through targeted attacks across multiple sectors. Given its recent emergence, limited public documentation exists regarding the group's specific country of origin or affiliations with established ransomware operations, though its targeting patterns suggest a professional operation potentially operating as an independent entity rather than a known Ransomware-as-a-Service model. The group has demonstrated a preference for attacking business-critical sectors including business services, consumer services, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services, with documented attacks spanning the United States, Canada, the Maldives, and Great Britain, though specific initial access vectors and technical methodologies remain undocumented by major threat intelligence firms. With only seven known victims documented since April 2026, Aurora represents a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families, though its cross-sector targeting approach and international victim scope indicate deliberate selection criteria rather than opportunistic attacks. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited victim count and recent emergence suggest either a highly selective targeting approach or a nascent operation still developing its operational capabilities. The group has been linked to 10 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 29, 2026Baresque Group listed by auroraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Baresque Group is reported in GB, a country with 309 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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Baresque Group

Claimed by aurora · listed 21 days ago

21d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 29, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: aurora
Status: Data leaked
Country: GB
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Baresque Group is a commercial-interiors company headquartered in Perth, Australia, with offices in Dallas, Chicago, and Brussels. The company designs and distributes architectural surface products including Zintra acoustic panels, FUNC furniture, botton+gardiner wallcoverings, and Scribblr surfaces. It operates across Australia, the United States, and Europe.

Industry: Commercial Interiors & Architectural Products
Address: Perth, Australia (HQ); offices in Dallas, TX, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Brussels, Belgium

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The disclosed data includes regulated PII at scale (passports, birth certificates, driver's licences, TFN declarations for an entire multinational workforce), medical records (workers compensation files with diagnoses and treatment plans), privileged legal documents, full plaintext credential sets for all critical systems, and TLS private keys enabling domain impersonation — constituting a critical multi-category regulated data breach across multiple jurisdictions (Australia, US, EU).

The Aurora ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated a broad range of sensitive data from Baresque Group, including employee identity documents, plaintext system credentials, TLS private keys, 343 GB of product R&D files, board and financial records, privileged legal documents, and workers compensation medical records. No encryption claim is explicitly stated; the post focuses entirely on data exfiltration and publication.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Passport scans (100+)
Birth certificates (35)
Driver's licences (60+)
Tax File Number (TFN) declarations (50+)
Plaintext credentials for Microsoft 365, Elmo Talent HR platform, LogMeIn, 3CX, Jim2 ERP
Browser-exported credential CSVs
Enterprise-wide Password_Listing.xls
TLS private keys (4) for customer-facing domains
SolidWorks CAD files and product blueprints (343 GB)
Manufacturing specifications
Board packs and financial reports
Cash-flow models
Active subpoena files
Sworn affidavit exhibits
Fair Work Australia tribunal filings
Settlement agreements with confidentiality clauses
Workers compensation medical records (diagnoses, treatment plans, claim amounts)

What the group claims

[design] Baresque Group — a respected commercial-interiors company headquartered in Perth, Australia, with offices in Dallas, Chicago, and Brussels. The exposed material includes: 100+ passport scans, 35 birth certificates, 60+ driver's licences, 50+ TFN declarations — the complete identity-theft toolkit for the entire workforce, spanning Australia, the US, and Europe. Plaintext credentials for every critical system — Microsoft 365, HR platform (Elmo Talent), remote-access gateway (LogMeIn), phone system (3CX), ERP (Jim2) — all in browser-export CSVs and an enterprise-wide Password_Listing.xls that had been sitting on a shared drive since at least 2017. 4 TLS private keys for customer-facing domains — enabling impersonation of the company's websites. 343 GB of product R&D — SolidWorks CAD files, manufacturing specifications, and product blueprints for Zintra acoustic panels, FUNC furniture, botton+gardiner wallcoverings, and Scribblr surfaces. The complete design library. Two years of board packs, financial reports, and cash-flow models — the company's entire strategic and financial position laid bare. Privileged legal documents — active subpoena files, sworn affidavit exhibits, Fair Work Australia tribunal filings, and settlement agreements with confidentiality clauses. Workers compensation medical records naming specific employees with diagnoses, treatment plans, and claim amounts.

Sources

Victim sitebaresquegroup.com
Leak posthttp://u6lieui2dakbctcjea2bz4r4q32r7t36nwljovqbv7mxs6o2smgxixid.onion/blog/baresque-group-0a8f469f

Source

Indexed 21 days ago

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