Disclosure context

About Interlock

Interlock is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in October 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as an independent entity or under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have not yet published comprehensive technical analyses of their operations. Since beginning operations, Interlock has reportedly compromised approximately 100 victims, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as Italy, while demonstrating a preference for attacking education, manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector entities. The group remains active as of late 2024, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security research organizations have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 109 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post May 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 6, 2026Aero Fabrications listed by Interlockon 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, Aero Fabrications 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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Aero Fabrications Ltd

listed as Aero Fabrications · Claimed by Interlock · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Interlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jan 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Aero Fabrications Ltd is a UK-based aerospace fabrication specialist with over 30 years of experience, founded in 1983 and registered in England (Company No. 2793994). The company offers a full turnkey manufacturing solution including blank manufacture, heat treatment, welding, fabrication, assembly, and leading edge skin facility services. It holds NADCAP and ISO9001 accreditations and is approved by major aerospace primes including Airbus, BAE Systems, and Bombardier, operating from two sites in Nottinghamshire.

Industry: Aerospace Components Manufacturing
Address: Common Lane, Watnall, Nottingham, NG16 1HD, United Kingdom
Founded: 1983

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and public publication of data including confidential aerospace engineering drawings, contracts, and PII (customer and employee records) from a supplier to major defence and aerospace primes (Airbus, BAE Systems), raising significant national security and regulatory concerns.

The Interlock ransomware group claims to have compromised and publicly leaked all data and databases belonging to Aero Fabrications Ltd, attributing the breach to poor security and employee negligence. Exfiltrated data reportedly includes customer, employee, and company records, contracts, and confidential engineering drawings.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer data
Employee data
Company data
Contracts
Confidential engineering drawings
Databases

What the group claims

Aero Fabrications Ltd specializes in the manufacture of aerospace components, with over 30 years of experience. They partner with leading aerospace companies such as Airbus and BAE Systems. However, due to poor security and employee negligence, all data and databases were compromised and leaked publicly. This included customer, employee, and company data, as well as contracts and, most importantly, confidential drawings.

Sources

Victim siteaerofabrications.co.uk
Leak posthttp://x6obl6pfmqsasvwj72hr22s2mpsdaklwkoa46zk3h7kbkcznu6whdmad.onion/index.php?p=

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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