Was WBF Construction hit by ransomware?

WBF Construction was listed by the AiLock ransomware operation, and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the AiLock ransomware group?

AiLock is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the WBF Construction breach?

AiLock published data attributed to WBF Construction. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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WBF Construction

Claimed by AiLock · listed 22 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 14, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: AiLock
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Jul 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

WBF Construction LLC is a small construction company based in New Haven, Connecticut, specializing in commercial and residential construction services. The company operates with 1–4 employees and generates under $500K in annual revenue.

Industry: Commercial & Residential Construction
Address: New Haven, Connecticut
Employees: 1-4

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a company listing with no details of data exfiltration, encryption proof, or operational impact. No proof files or screenshots are advertised.

AiLock claims to have attacked WBF Construction and published data. The post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it detail what data is at stake.

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What the group claims

WBF Construction LLC is a company that operates in the Commercial & Residential Construction industry. It employs 1to4 people and has under500K of revenue. The company is headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut.

Source

Indexed 22 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About AiLock

AiLock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 24 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad operational scope spanning the United States, Canada, Great Britain, China, and Germany. Based on publicly available information from security researchers, AiLock appears to focus on technology companies, consumer services, manufacturing, and public sector entities, though specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security firms. The group's relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation suggest they may be a smaller operation or newly formed entity, with no notable major campaigns or high-profile ransoms publicly reported by established threat intelligence sources. Given the March 2026 first observation date and lack of subsequent major public reporting, AiLock's current operational status and capabilities remain largely undetermined by mainstream cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 44 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 3, 2026; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 14, 2026WBF Construction listed by AiLockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by AiLock

AiLock has been linked to 44 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 Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AiLock means WBF Construction 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on AiLock'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.