Disclosure context

About hive

Hive is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, operating as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model to maximize their criminal enterprise's reach and profitability. The group is suspected to have origins in Eastern Europe based on their operational patterns and linguistic indicators, though definitive attribution remains unclear, and they operate independently while recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks on their behalf. Hive primarily gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities in public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses a combination of RSA and AES encryption algorithms while simultaneously exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption to enable double extortion tactics where they threaten to publish stolen information if ransom demands are not met. The group has targeted over 208 victims globally with a particular focus on manufacturing companies, business services, information technology firms, healthcare services, and internet and telecommunication services, primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Indonesia, and China, including notable attacks against healthcare systems and critical infrastructure that drew significant attention from law enforcement agencies. In January 2023, the FBI announced the successful disruption of Hive's operations, seizing their dark web leak sites and decryption keys, effectively dismantling the group's infrastructure and providing free decryption tools to victims. The group has been linked to 208 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 14, 2021; most recent post January 16, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 20, 2022Stolle Machinery listed by hiveon 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, Stolle Machinery 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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Stolle Machinery

Claimed by hive · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 20, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: hive
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Dec 20, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Stolle Machinery is the world's leading supplier of two-piece can and end-making machinery for the global canmaking industry. The company manufactures high-speed machines used in can plants worldwide to perform value-added functions in the canmaking process. It is headquartered in the United States.

Industry: Can & End-Making Machinery Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and imminent publication of all product-line blueprints constitutes significant theft of proprietary intellectual property from the world's leading supplier in its niche, posing serious competitive and operational harm; no regulated PII at scale is evidenced, so critical is not warranted.

The Hive ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated blueprints for all of Stolle Machinery's product lines, with the data described as forthcoming for public release. The post indicates data exfiltration with imminent publication of proprietary engineering documents.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Product blueprints
Engineering drawings (all product lines)

What the group claims

**** ALL BLUEPRINTS OF ALL PRODUCT LINES WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON **** Stolle is the world's leading supplier of two piece can and end-making machinery for the global canmaking industry. Our high speed machines can be found in can plants around the world performing the value-added functions of the canmaking process.

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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