Was Küng Ag Bern hit by ransomware?

Küng Ag Bern was listed by the NoEscape ransomware operation (Switzerland), 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 NoEscape ransomware group?

NoEscape 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 Küng Ag Bern breach?

NoEscape published data attributed to Küng Ag Bern. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Küng Ag Bern

Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 20, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: NoEscape
Status: Data leaked
Country: Switzerland
Sector: Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site: Sep 20, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Küng AG Bern is a Swiss company based in Bern that operates as a wholesale trader and distributor of mineral oil products under the AVIA brand, including fuels, heating oil, and lubricants. The company maintains significant storage capacity in the Bern region and operates or supports a network of approximately 500–800 AVIA-branded fuel stations across Switzerland. It also issues fuel card products (e.g., EHV, YB, SCB, and private/corporate AVIA cards) and provides roadside assistance services.

Industry: Wholesale Distribution of Mineral Oil & Petroleum Products
Address: Bern, Switzerland

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration. As a mineral oil wholesale distributor with customer fuel card data, billing, and personnel records, the exposure likely includes financial and personal data of business and private customers at meaningful scale, warranting a high severity rating.

NoEscape claims to have attacked Küng AG Bern and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data. The specific data types and volume were not detailed in the truncated leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business operational data
Customer records
Fuel card holder information
Billing and payroll records
Internal IT/technical data

What the group claims

Küng Ag Bern handle the wholesale trade and distribution of mineral oil products under the AVIA brand. We have significant storage space in the Bern area. Our customers can...

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About NoEscape

NoEscape is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in mid-2023, rapidly establishing itself as a significant threat with 249 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origins and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. NoEscape demonstrates sophisticated attack methodologies targeting critical infrastructure and essential services, with their campaigns showing a clear preference for high-value targets in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing sectors across developed nations, particularly focusing on the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Australia. The group's rapid victim accumulation rate since their June 2023 emergence indicates an aggressive operational tempo and effective attack capabilities, though specific technical details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, NoEscape appears to remain an active threat with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities. The group has been linked to 249 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post December 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 20, 2023Küng Ag Bern listed by NoEscapeon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by NoEscape

NoEscape has been linked to 249 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 Energy & Utilities sector, which has 163 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Küng Ag Bern is reported in Switzerland, a country with 154 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by NoEscape means Küng Ag Bern 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, NCSC-CH (Switzerland), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on NoEscape'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.