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AWS AG

listed as awsag.com · Claimed by Madliberator · listed 2 years ago

23m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 17, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Madliberator
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Aug 17, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AWS AG is a consulting and engineering firm with over 20 years of experience, focusing on safety, reliability, and performance. Based in Germany, the company provides consulting and engineering solutions to customers across various sectors.

Industry
Management Consulting & Engineering

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory disclosed. No confirmation of operational impact or data exfiltration. Post contains only generic company description without substantive breach claims.

Madliberator claims to have compromised AWS AG's systems. The leak post does not explicitly state whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it specify what data is at stake.

low

What the group claims

We have more than 20 years of experience in consulting and engineering and focus on the highest standards of safety, reliability and performance. At AWS, authenticity, honesty and transparency are the focus of our work and we strive to deliver excellent products to our customers. We support our customers every step of the way and continuously work to expand our expertise and knowledge to provide the best solution for our customers.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Madliberator

Madliberator is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a focused targeting approach across multiple continents. Based on their targeting pattern spanning Spain, Italy, Germany, South Korea, and South Africa, the group appears to operate internationally with no clear geographic origin established by security researchers, and their operational model as either independent operators or ransomware-as-a-service remains undetermined due to limited public documentation. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major security firms or government agencies. The group has primarily targeted business services, manufacturing, financial services, and government sectors, though no specific high-profile incidents or record ransom demands have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence providers. As of current reporting, Madliberator appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing targeting activities, though comprehensive analysis remains limited due to the group's relatively small victim count and recent operational timeline. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 17, 2024; most recent post October 1, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: mad liberator.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 17, 2024awsag.com listed by Madliberatoron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Madliberator

Madliberator has been linked to 16 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Madliberator dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, awsag.com is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Madliberator means awsag.com 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 Madliberator'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.