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NIDEC GPM GmbH

Claimed by Raworld · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 20, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Raworld
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Dec 20, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NIDEC GPM GmbH is a German automotive supplier founded in 1939, specializing in thermal management systems, water pumps, and lubrication solutions for passenger vehicles, trucks, and electric mobility applications. Based in Auengrund with over 200 employees, the company is recognized as an innovation leader in Germany and supplies major automotive manufacturers.

Industry
Automotive Components & Thermal Management Systems
Address
Auengrund, Germany
Employees
200+
Founded
1939

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the ransomware group (disclosed_status = data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, without access to the actual leak post, proof count, or specifics on data sensitivity, severity cannot be elevated to 'high' or 'critical'. The target is a significant industrial company with access to sensitive automotive designs and supplier networks.

The raworld group claims to have attacked NIDEC GPM GmbH and published data. No leak post details were captured, so the specific claims regarding encryption, exfiltration, or data types are not available for verification.

medium

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About raworld

Raworld is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in May 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available information, though their targeting patterns suggest they may operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, though their victim profile spanning multiple sectors including business services, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare suggests they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than highly specialized initial access vectors. With 112 documented victims across major economies including Germany, the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Italy, Raworld has demonstrated significant operational capability despite their recent emergence, though specific details about notable high-profile attacks or law enforcement disruption efforts have not been widely reported by major threat intelligence organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active, though the limited public intelligence available makes definitive assessment of their operational status challenging. The group has been linked to 112 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 6, 2023; most recent post December 28, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 20, 2023NIDEC GPM GmbH listed by raworldon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by raworld

raworld has been linked to 112 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,684 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, NIDEC GPM GmbH is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by raworld means NIDEC GPM GmbH appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on raworld's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.