Disclosure context

About Kairos

Kairos is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in November 2024 that appears to be primarily financially motivated, having targeted approximately 75 victims across multiple sectors and countries. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, and it is unknown whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Based on available targeting data, Kairos appears to focus their operations primarily on English-speaking countries including the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany, while their sector targeting spans education, healthcare, agriculture and food production, and business services, though specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been publicly documented by major security organizations. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, there are no widely reported notable campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. As of current reporting, Kairos appears to remain active based on their recent first observation date, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from major security organizations have not yet been published due to the group's nascent operational timeline. The group has been linked to 86 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 13, 2024; most recent post May 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 21, 2026Resch Maschinenbau listed by Kairoson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Resch Maschinenbau is reported in Germany, a country with 695 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.

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Resch Maschinenbau

Claimed by Kairos · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 21, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Kairos
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Mar 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Resch Maschinenbau is a German manufacturing specialist that positions itself as both a production partner and a consultancy. The company emphasises high-quality manufacturing combined with advisory services, including early-stage involvement in Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) to reduce product costs and shorten delivery times. Scale and exact location are not publicly confirmed from available sources.

Industry: Precision / Contract Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is confirmed published (data_published status) by the threat actor, indicating actual exfiltration rather than a mere listing. As a manufacturing specialist likely holding engineering IP, design documentation, and client project data, the publication of such material constitutes significant business data exposure. No evidence of regulated PII at scale prevents a critical rating.

The Kairos ransomware group claims to have published data belonging to Resch Maschinenbau, with the disclosed status recorded as data_published. The leak post excerpt reproduces company-authored text, suggesting internal documents or website content was exfiltrated; no specific data categories or volume are stated in the truncated post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal company documents
Potentially engineering/design files (DFMA-related)
Business communications

What the group claims

Wir setzen in unserer Position als Fertigungsspezialist neben einer qualitativ hochwertigen Fertigung stark auf unsere Rolle als Berater. Unser Anspruch ist es, dass Sie von unserer langjährigen Erfahrung und unserem Know How profitieren. Mit Kreativität und unserem Fachwissen unterstützen wir Sie beispielsweise bereits bei der Entwicklung in DFMA, um Ihre Produkte noch kostengünstiger zu gestalten und die Lieferzeiten zu verkürzen.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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