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Evosys Laser GmbH

Claimed by Aurora · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 30, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Aurora
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Jul 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Evosys Laser GmbH is an Erlangen-based manufacturer of industrial laser welding systems serving Tier 1 automotive customers. The company operates subsidiaries in the United States and China and employs approximately 130 staff.

Industry
Industrial Laser Welding Systems Manufacturing
Address
Erlangen, Germany
Employees
130

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated sensitive data at scale: personal health records (including minors), financial/tax identifiers (IBANs, tax IDs, social insurance numbers), attorney-client privileged communications, proprietary industrial control systems, and trade secrets (award-winning manufacturing process). Affects EU-regulated entity with significant operational and legal exposure.

Aurora claims exfiltration of the complete corporate repository spanning all business functions, including HR records, financial documents, customer project data, infrastructure details, and industrial control systems code.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • HR files (130 employees: contracts, salary histories, bank IBANs, tax IDs, social insurance numbers, pension records, medical exams, disciplinary records, minors' health records)
  • Server infrastructure documentation and domain admin credentials
  • Customer project data (laser welding parameters, CAD files, robot control software, proprietary AQW process documentation)
  • Financial records (2015–2025 annual reports, P&L forecasts, cash positions, investor documents, executive compensation)
  • Attorney-client privileged communications (230 MB)
  • Whistleblower reports under HinSchG
  • Industrial control data (robot source code, PLC programs, nginx private keys, VPN configurations)

What the group claims

[manufacturer] Evosys Laser GmbH — an Erlangen-based industrial laser welding systems manufacturer with ~130 employees, subsidiaries in the US, China, and a string of Tier 1 automotive customers. The dataset is the complete corporate repository, spanning every business function: 130 employees' complete HR files — employment contracts, salary histories, bank IBANs, tax IDs, social insurance numbers, pension records, medical examinations, disciplinary warnings, and two confirmed minors' health records. <censored> <censored> Complete server infrastructure map via mRemoteNG XML — 7 servers named, domain admin credentials, internal IPs. The Citrix admin password is Password1. 326 GB of customer project data — laser welding process parameters, CAD files, robot control software, and the award-winning AQW process know-how. Complete financial history — Jahresabschlüsse (2015–2025), P&L forecasts through 2028, cash positions, investor documents, executive compensation. Attorney-client privileged communications (230 MB) and whistleblower reports under HinSchG. Industrial control data — robot SRS source code, PLC programs, nginx private keys for laser system web interfaces, VPN configurations for customer site remote access.

Sources

Source

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Disclosure context

About aurora

Aurora is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations through targeted attacks across multiple sectors. Given its recent emergence, limited public documentation exists regarding the group's specific country of origin or affiliations with established ransomware operations, though its targeting patterns suggest a professional operation potentially operating as an independent entity rather than a known Ransomware-as-a-Service model. The group has demonstrated a preference for attacking business-critical sectors including business services, consumer services, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services, with documented attacks spanning the United States, Canada, the Maldives, and Great Britain, though specific initial access vectors and technical methodologies remain undocumented by major threat intelligence firms. With only seven known victims documented since April 2026, Aurora represents a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families, though its cross-sector targeting approach and international victim scope indicate deliberate selection criteria rather than opportunistic attacks. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited victim count and recent emergence suggest either a highly selective targeting approach or a nascent operation still developing its operational capabilities. The group has been linked to 25 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post July 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 30, 2026Evosys Laser GmbH listed by auroraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by aurora

aurora has been linked to 25 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full aurora dossier →

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, Evosys Laser GmbH is reported in Germany, a country with 380 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means Evosys Laser 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 aurora'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.