Disclosure context

About akira

Akira is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat actor with over 1,500 documented victims. The group's country of origin remains unclear, though they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiation processes. Akira employs multi-faceted attack methodologies including exploitation of VPN vulnerabilities, particularly targeting Cisco VPN appliances, and utilizes living-off-the-land techniques along with legitimate administrative tools to avoid detection, while implementing double extortion tactics by exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy, with a particular focus on manufacturing, business services, technology, and construction sectors, though they have shown willingness to attack various industries. Despite being relatively new to the ransomware landscape, Akira has maintained consistent operations throughout 2023 and into 2024, with law enforcement agencies including CISA and FBI issuing advisories about their activities, though no major disruption operations have been publicly reported against the group as of late 2024. The group has been linked to 1,616 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 6, 2026SDK Environmental listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 374 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, SDK Environmental is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 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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SDK Environmental

Claimed by akira · listed 15 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SDK Environmental is a long-established UK company specialising in environmental services, primarily serving local authorities, housing associations, and corporate clients. Their services include corporate and business-to-business pest control, direct pest control, animal warden services, and dog collection services. No further details on company size or founding date are available from the leak post or a public site.

Industry: Environmental & Pest Control Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant business data including employee PII and client financials at ~10 GB scale; data has been published ('disclosed status: data_published'), elevating impact beyond a mere listing.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 10 GB of corporate data from SDK Environmental, including employee personal information, client financials, contracts and agreements, and project documents, with publication described as imminent.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal information
Client financial records
Contracts and agreements
Project documents
Other corporate documents

What the group claims

SDK Environmental is a long-established UK company specializing in environmental services, prim arily catering to local authorities, housing associations, and corporate clients. Their offerin gs include corporate pest control, business-to-business pest control, direct pest control, anim al warden services, and dog collection services. We will upload 10gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal information, client financials an d other documents, contracts and agreements, projects, and so on.

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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