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AKBASOGLU HOLDING Trans KA

Claimed by Knight · listed 3 years ago

33m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 13, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Knight
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site
Oct 13, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AKBASOGLU HOLDING Trans KA appears to be a transportation and logistics company, likely a subsidiary or division of AKBASOGLU HOLDING. The 'Trans KA' designation suggests a trucking or freight transport operation. No public website or additional corporate details were available to confirm jurisdiction, scale, or headquarters location.

Industry
Transportation & Logistics

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The post indicates data exfiltration with an imminent publication threat, but no proof files have been published yet, no data volume is specified, and the nature of the data (PII, financial, etc.) is unconfirmed. The threat to attack customers elevates concern slightly above a pure encryption-only incident.

The Knight ransomware group claims to have compromised AKBASOGLU HOLDING Trans KA and threatens to publish all exfiltrated data within three days, with additional attacks threatened against the victim's customers.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Unspecified company data
  • Customer data

What the group claims

This blog will be published in 3 days and all data will be made publicly available and attacks will be made on AKBASOGLU HOLDING Trans KA customers.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Knight

Knight is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on targeting critical infrastructure and high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With 48 known victims since their emergence, Knight has shown a preference for targeting organizations across the United States, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Germany, with particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, media, and government sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though their targeting of healthcare and government entities suggests they employ effective initial access techniques and likely utilize double extortion tactics common among contemporary ransomware groups. While specific notable campaigns have not been widely publicized by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's consistent activity across multiple countries and high-value sectors indicates sustained operational capability. Knight appears to remain active as of current reporting, though detailed technical analysis and specific law enforcement actions against the group have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 6, 2023; most recent post February 12, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 13, 2023AKBASOGLU HOLDING Trans KA listed by Knighton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Knight

Knight has been linked to 48 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Knight dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation & Logistics sector, which has 180 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, AKBASOGLU HOLDING Trans KA is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Knight means AKBASOGLU HOLDING Trans KA 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Knight'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.