Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 17, 2025IAD GmbH listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 43 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, IAD GmbH is reported in Germany, a country with 695 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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IAD GmbH

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 8 months ago

43 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 17, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Sarcoma
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Sep 17, 2025
Data size: 43 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

IAD GmbH is a German company providing IT training, certification services, and Pearson VUE test centers across multiple locations including Erfurt, Jena, Leipzig, Marburg, and Nordhausen. In addition to training and certification, the company offers room and hardware rental, IT consulting services, and skilled worker recruitment. Their operations span several German cities, positioning them as a regional provider of professional IT education and testing infrastructure.

Industry: IT Training, Certification & Testing Services
Address: Erfurt, Jena, Leipzig, Marburg, and Nordhausen, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) with 43 GB exfiltrated from a company handling professional certification and testing services, likely containing candidate PII, training records, and business data across multiple German locations.

The Sarcoma ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 43 GB of data from IAD GmbH and has published the data as a disclosed leak. The specific categories of exfiltrated data are not detailed in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Training and certification records
Business operational data
Client/candidate records
HR and recruitment data
Internal documents

What the group claims

IAD GmbH In addition to our traditional training and certification services, you can also take advantage of other services: from our in-house Pearson VUE test centers in Erfurt, Jena, Leipzig, Marburg, and Nordhausen, to room and hardware rental, to booking our experienced consultants and recruiting skilled workers.Geo: Germany - Leak size: 43 GB Archive - Contains: Files, SQL, Exchange

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Site: bedachungen-soellner.de Industry: Commercial & Residential Construction GEO: Germany 
Site: charterindustrial.com Industry: Industrial Machinery & Equipment GEO: USA 
Site: msbuilders.com Industry: Commercial & Residential Construction GEO: USA 
Site: thermofin.de Industry: Building Materials GEO: Germany 
Site: miamimanagement.com Industry: Business Services GEO: USA 
Site: kwg-senftenberg.de Industry: Business Services GEO: Germany 
Site: f1-generation.com Industry: Apparel & Accessories Retail GEO: Germany 
Site: inoxlaghi.com Industry: Industrial Machinery & Equipment GEO: Italy 
Site: maselli.com Industry: Manufacturing innovative optical technology GEO: Italy 
Site: metroheatingandair.com Industry: Commercial & Residential Construction GEO: USA 
Site: hv.com.co Industry: Food & Beverage GEO: Colombia 

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Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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