Disclosure context

About Darkrace

Darkrace is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in May 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted extortion campaigns. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting European nations, particularly Italy, Sweden, and Portugal, while also conducting operations against victims in Japan and Switzerland, suggesting a broad international scope despite their limited scale of operations. With only 10 documented victims since their emergence, Darkrace appears to operate as a smaller, independent ransomware operation rather than a large-scale Ransomware-as-a-Service enterprise, though specific details regarding their country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal groups remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting. Due to the limited public documentation from major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies regarding Darkrace's specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and initial access vectors, their operational tactics and technical capabilities are not well-established in current threat intelligence databases. The group has not been associated with any major, high-profile ransomware incidents that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement response, likely due to their relatively small victim count and recent emergence in the threat landscape. Current intelligence suggests Darkrace remains active as of late 2023, though their limited operational footprint and absence from major cybersecurity advisories indicates they represent a lower-tier threat compared to more established ransomware operations. The group has been linked to 10 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 31, 2023; most recent post June 20, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 5, 2023rzepeckimroczkowski listed by Darkraceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Automotive sector, which has 11 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, rzepeckimroczkowski is reported in Poland, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

Rzepecki Mroczkowski Sp. z o.o.

listed as rzepeckimroczkowski · Claimed by Darkrace · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jun 5, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Darkrace
Status: Data leaked
Country: Poland
Sector: Automotive
Listed on leak site: Jun 5, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Rzepecki Mroczkowski Sp. z o.o. is an authorized Volkswagen and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles dealer and service center based in Poznań, Poland, operating since 1991. The company also provides authorized sales and servicing of original spare parts for Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Audi, and Skoda brands. It operates multiple service locations including sites on ul. Sanocka and ul. Wiatraczna.

Industry: Automotive Dealership & Service (Volkswagen Group)
Address: ul. Wiatraczna 5, Poznań, Poland
Founded: 1991

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), confirming exfiltration of business data. An automotive dealership would hold customer PII, financial transaction records, and employee data, making the exposure significant even without a stated data volume.

Darkrace claims to have exfiltrated data from Rzepecki Mroczkowski Sp. z o.o., with the disclosure status marked as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released. No specific data volume or ransom amount was stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
Potentially customer records
Potentially financial records
Potentially employee records

What the group claims

Rzepecki Mroczkowski Sp. Z o.o. - z grupą Volkswagen związani jesteśmy od 1991, jako autoryzowany dealer marki Volkswagen oraz Volkswagen Samochody Dostawcze. Siedziba Spółki zlokalizowana jest w Poznaniu przy ulicy Wiatracznej 5. W tej samej lokalizacji prowadzimy również autoryzowany serwis i sprzedaż oryginalnych części zamiennych dla marek: Volkswagen, Volkswagen Samochody Dostawcze, Audi oraz Skoda.

Sources

Victim siterzepeckimroczkowski.pl
Leak posthttp://wkrlpub5k52rjigwxfm6m7ogid55kamgc5azxlq7zjgaopv33tgx2sqd.onion/29115175af10/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.