Was Genesis Motors hit by ransomware?

Genesis Motors was listed by the Trigona ransomware operation (Australia), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Trigona ransomware group?

Trigona is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Genesis Motors breach?

Trigona published data attributed to Genesis Motors. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Genesis Motors

Claimed by Trigona · listed 2 years ago

29m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 31, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Trigona
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jan 31, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Genesis Motors is an Isuzu UTE dealership located in Lilydale, Victoria, Australia. Established in March 2011 in Ringwood and later relocated to Lilydale in 2016, the dealership specializes in Isuzu D-MAX UTE and MU-X SUV models, alongside other vehicle brands including Mitsubishi, Ford, and Hyundai.

Industry: Automotive Dealership
Address: 461 Maroondah Highway, Lilydale, VIC 3140, Australia
Founded: 2011

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only an announcement and company background information with no proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory disclosed. No operational impact is stated. The disclosure status is 'data_published' but no actual data samples or proof are evident in the provided materials.

Trigona claims to have attacked Genesis Motors and published data. No specific details are provided regarding whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor what data categories are at stake.

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What the group claims

Genesis Motors Isuzu UTE, situated in Lilydale, South East Melbourne, Victoria, stands as a premier Isuzu UTE dealership in Australia. Established initially in Ringwood in March 2011, Genesis Motors has rapidly grown under the leadership of Dealer Principal, Sumil Salgadoe, who began his journey with Isuzu UTE Australia in Brisbane in 2008. With a profound belief in the quality and reliability of Isuzu UTE products, Salgadoe ventured to establish Genesis Motors Isuzu UTE, offering the renowned Isuzu D-MAX UTE and Isuzu MU-X SUV. In response to the company's exponential growth in 2016, Genesis Motors expanded its office space, prompting a relocation to Lilydale, Victoria.

Sources

Victim sitegenesismotors.com.au/
Leak posthttp://krsbhaxbki6jr4zvwblvkaqzjkircj7cxf46qt3na5o5sj2hpikbupqd.onion/leak/171e3d2f

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Trigona

Trigona is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in April 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service operation. Trigona employs double extortion tactics, combining data encryption with data exfiltration and threats to publish stolen information on leak sites, though specific details about their initial access vectors and encryption methods have not been extensively documented by major security researchers. The group has claimed 49 victims as of current reporting, with their attacks concentrated in the United States, Australia, Mexico, France, and Indonesia, primarily targeting business services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and finance sectors. Given the group's recent emergence in 2023, there are no widely reported major campaigns or significant law enforcement actions documented by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. Trigona appears to remain active as of current intelligence assessments, though the limited public documentation reflects their relatively recent entry into the ransomware landscape. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 17, 2023; most recent post March 30, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 31, 2024Genesis Motors listed by Trigonaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Trigona

Trigona has been linked to 49 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 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Genesis Motors is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Trigona means Genesis Motors 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Trigona'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.