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CANAROPA Inc

Claimed by Nokoyawa · listed 3 years ago

36m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 20, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nokoyawa
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Jul 20, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CANAROPA Inc is a leading contract manufacturer, importer, and distributor of quality commercial, residential, and architectural door hardware, headquartered in Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1954, its product range includes door locks, exit devices, door control, hinges, security hardware, and electrified hardware. Its products are distributed throughout North America across residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings.

Industry
Architectural & Commercial Door Hardware Manufacturing
Address
Quebec, Canada
Founded
1954

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor, confirming exfiltration of business data. While the exact data categories are unspecified, a manufacturer of security hardware dealing with commercial clients across North America likely holds sensitive business, employee, and customer PII data, warranting a high severity classification.

Nokoyawa claims to have attacked CANAROPA Inc and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of company data, though the specific volume and nature of data exfiltrated are not detailed in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company business data
  • Potentially employee records
  • Potentially customer/partner records
  • Potentially financial records

What the group claims

Canaropa, founded in 1954 and headquartered in Quebec, Canada, is a leading provider of quality commercial and residential door locks that are secure, functional, and aesthetic. Canaropa offers a wide variety of exit devices for narrow and wide stiles with...

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including healthcare, non-profit, education, finance, and energy. The group has claimed at least 36 victims since its emergence, with attacks predominantly focused on the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and the Philippines. While detailed technical analysis of Nokoyawa's operations remains limited in public reporting, the group appears to follow conventional ransomware tactics targeting critical infrastructure and essential services sectors. Their targeting of healthcare and educational institutions suggests they operate without the sector restrictions that some other ransomware groups have adopted. Notable campaigns include attacks across their preferred geographic regions, though specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security firms. As of current reporting, Nokoyawa appears to remain an active threat, though the group's relatively recent emergence means long-term operational patterns and potential law enforcement disruption efforts are still developing. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 9, 2022; most recent post August 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 20, 2023CANAROPA Inc listed by Nokoyawaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa has been linked to 36 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 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, CANAROPA Inc is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Nokoyawa means CANAROPA Inc 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Nokoyawa'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.