Ransomware victim disclosure

AutoMax

listed as automax.com · Claimed by devman · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 21, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: devman
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Jan 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AutoMax.com is a used car dealership group operating in the United States, offering a wide range of pre-owned vehicles with auto inspection and warranty coverage. The company provides financing options for various credit situations and focuses on customer service through its sales staff. No additional verifiable details about scale or headquarters were available from the leak post or public site.

Industry: Used Car Dealership / Automotive Retail

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is reported as published rather than merely announced, suggesting some level of exfiltration has occurred; however, no specific data categories, volume, or proof files were described, and the leak post body appears AI-generated with no verifiable stolen-data claims, limiting severity to medium.

The group 'devman' claims to have published data belonging to AutoMax.com, with the disclosure status marked as data_published. No specific details about encryption, exfiltration volume, or data categories were provided in the leak post.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

AutoMax.com is a leading used car dealership group in the US. Known for its wide range of high-quality pre-owned vehicles, AutoMax.com provides affordable options with comprehensive auto inspection and warranty. They offer financing options for all credit situations. The company is committed to delivering excellent customer service through its knowledgeable and friendly staff.

Sources

Victim siteautomax.com
Leak posthttp://devmanblggk7ddrtqj3tsocnayow3bwnozab2s4yhv4shpv6ueitjzid.onion

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About devman

The devman ransomware group is a recently emerged threat actor that began operations in April 2025, demonstrating a financially motivated criminal enterprise with a focus on opportunistic targeting across multiple sectors and geographic regions. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details regarding their country of origin, organizational structure, or potential affiliations with established ransomware-as-a-service operations remain unknown to major cybersecurity agencies and researchers. The group's attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been thoroughly documented by reputable security firms, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than highly specialized tactics. In the brief period since their emergence, devman has reportedly compromised 184 victims across diverse sectors including technology, healthcare, public sector organizations, and agriculture and food production, with primary targeting concentrated in the United States, France, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Taiwan, and Thailand, though the inclusion of Svalbard and Jan Mayen in their targeting list may indicate data collection anomalies rather than actual operational focus on this remote Arctic territory. As of current reporting, devman appears to remain an active threat, though the lack of detailed technical analysis or law enforcement advisories suggests they may be operating at a relatively low profile compared to more established ransomware groups. The group has been linked to 184 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 6, 2025; most recent post February 4, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 21, 2026automax.com listed by devmanon 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, automax.com is reported in India, a country with 255 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.