Disclosure context

About AiLock

AiLock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 24 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad operational scope spanning the United States, Canada, Great Britain, China, and Germany. Based on publicly available information from security researchers, AiLock appears to focus on technology companies, consumer services, manufacturing, and public sector entities, though specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security firms. The group's relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation suggest they may be a smaller operation or newly formed entity, with no notable major campaigns or high-profile ransoms publicly reported by established threat intelligence sources. Given the March 2026 first observation date and lack of subsequent major public reporting, AiLock's current operational status and capabilities remain largely undetermined by mainstream cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 3, 2026; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 10, 2026Alvi Associates listed by AiLockon the group's public leak site

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, Alvi Associates 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.

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Alvi Associates

Claimed by AiLock · listed 1 month ago

40d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 10, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: AiLock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Apr 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Alvi Associates, Inc. is a multidisciplinary civil engineering firm founded in 1979 and headquartered in Towson, Maryland. The firm specializes in structural, water resources, transportation, and geotechnical engineering for infrastructure projects. It has delivered award-winning solutions for government and transportation clients across the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond.

Industry: Civil & Infrastructure Engineering Services
Address: 110 West Road, Suite 250, Towson, MD 21204
Founded: 1979

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, indicating exfiltration occurred, but no regulated PII at scale, medical, or financial data is specifically evidenced; the firm works with government transportation clients which adds some sensitivity, but the post lacks specifics on data type or volume.

AiLock claims to have compromised Alvi Associates and has published data associated with the attack. The leak post indicates data has been disclosed, though specific details on encryption or the volume of exfiltrated data were not stated in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Engineering project files
Client records
Internal business documents

What the group claims

Founded in 1979, Alvi Associates, Inc. specializes in integrated engineering services for infrastructure projects, including structural, water resources, transportation, and geotechnical engineering.

Sources

Victim sitealviassociates.com

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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