Was Aeroklas Duys / Duys Engineering Group hit by ransomware?

Aeroklas Duys / Duys Engineering Group was listed by the Deadlock ransomware operation (South Africa), 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 Deadlock ransomware group?

Deadlock 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 Aeroklas Duys / Duys Engineering Group breach?

Deadlock published data attributed to Aeroklas Duys / Duys Engineering Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Aeroklas Duys (Pty) Ltd

listed as Aeroklas Duys / Duys Engineering Group · Claimed by Deadlock · listed 3 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 12, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Deadlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: South Africa
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Oct 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Aeroklas Duys (Pty) Ltd is a specialized automotive manufacturing company formed as a strategic joint venture between Duys Engineering Group (founded 1960 in South Africa) and Aeroklas, a global automotive accessory manufacturer owned by Eastern Polymer Group of Thailand. The company operates in industrial and mechanical engineering.

Industry: Automotive Manufacturing & Engineering
Founded: 1960

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published by the group but no proof files or specific data types described in the available leak post excerpt. Confirmed exfiltration claimed but details and sensitivity level unknown.

Deadlock claims to have exfiltrated data from Aeroklas Duys. The leak post does not specify which data types were taken or whether encryption occurred.

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What the group claims

Aeroklas Duys (Pty) Ltd a specialized automotive manufacturing company It was formed as a strategic joint venture between the Duys Engineering Group and Aeroklas (a prominent global automotive accessory manufacturer owned by the Eastern Polymer Group of Thailand). Duys Engineering Group an industrial and mechanical engineering firm founded in South Africa in 1960.

Sources

Victim siteaeroklasduys.co.za

Source

Indexed 3 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Deadlock

Deadlock is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 10 known victims across a geographically diverse target set. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time, a comprehensive technical profile cannot be fully established. Based on available victimology data, the group has demonstrated a targeting pattern spanning Singapore, China, Sweden, Spain, and Nigeria, suggesting an opportunistic or globally distributed operational scope rather than a regionally focused campaign. Targeted sectors include manufacturing, business services, telecommunications, and financial services, indicating a preference for industries with high operational dependencies and potential for significant disruption, which is consistent with financially motivated ransomware actors seeking maximum leverage for ransom payment. No confirmed attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS affiliation, or specific tooling has been publicly documented by authoritative sources as of this profile's preparation. Due to the group's nascent operational timeline and the limited volume of publicly verified intelligence, analysts should treat this profile as preliminary and subject to significant revision as additional technical indicators, victim disclosures, and research reporting become available. Continued monitoring is advised given the cross-sector and cross-regional targeting behavior observed in this early operational phase. The group has been linked to 136 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 15, 2026; most recent post October 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 12, 2026Aeroklas Duys / Duys Engineering Group listed by Deadlock on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Deadlock

Deadlock has been linked to 136 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 3,699 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Aeroklas Duys / Duys Engineering Group is reported in South Africa, a country with 27 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Deadlock means Aeroklas Duys / Duys Engineering Group 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, ECS-CSIRT (South Africa), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Deadlock'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.