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FAPS, Inc.

listed as FAPS Inc. · Claimed by Mountlocker · listed 5 years ago

58m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 9, 2021
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Mountlocker
Status
Data leaked
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Sep 9, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

FAPS, Inc. (Foreign Auto Preparation Service, Inc.) is a family-owned automotive logistics company established in 1959, specializing in pre-delivery preparation, inspection, and processing of imported and exported vehicles. Operating over 700,000 square feet of facilities in Port Newark with capacity to handle 500,000+ vehicles annually, the company provides mechanical repair, body work, paint refinishing, and global certification services.

Industry
Automotive Import & Export; Vehicle Pre-delivery & Processing Services
Address
Port Newark, New Jersey, USA
Founded
1959

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed_status confirms 'data_published'), indicating confirmed exfiltration; however, no leak post details, proof files, or specific data inventory are captured. Automotive logistics/supply chain data at scale warrants medium rating pending confirmation of sensitive content.

MountLocker group claims to have breached FAPS, Inc. and published data. No specific details on exfiltrated data types or operational impact are stated in the available disclosure information.

medium

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

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Disclosure context

About mountlocker

MountLocker is a ransomware operation that emerged in mid-2020 and was more prominently observed through early 2021, operating primarily with financial motivation through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model that recruited affiliates to conduct intrusions while the core developers maintained the malware and payment infrastructure. The group is believed to have Eastern European origins, and researchers at CrowdStrike and other firms noted operational and technical overlaps suggesting loose connections to other ransomware ecosystems active during the same period, though definitive attribution to a specific threat actor collective remains limited in public reporting. MountLocker affiliates were observed leveraging exposed Remote Desktop Protocol services and stolen credentials as primary initial access vectors, deploying the MountLocker encryptor alongside the AdFind Active Directory reconnaissance tool and legitimate remote administration utilities to facilitate lateral movement; the group practiced double extortion, exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption and threatening publication on a dedicated leak site to compel payment. Based on publicly available telemetry and reporting, the group accumulated at least 18 confirmed victims across manufacturing, construction, transportation and logistics, business services, and healthcare sectors, though no single campaign achieved the notoriety of contemporaneous groups such as REvil or Conti, and no record ransom figures were publicly disclosed. MountLocker's activity declined significantly through mid-2021, with the operation believed to have rebranded or dissolved, potentially transitioning into or merging with the AstroLocker and XingLocker variants that researchers observed using closely related code and infrastructure during the same timeframe. The group has been linked to 18 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 7, 2021; most recent post February 8, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Mount Locker, Mount-Locker.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 9, 2021FAPS Inc. listed by mountlockeron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by mountlocker

mountlocker has been linked to 18 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full mountlocker dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by mountlocker means FAPS 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on mountlocker'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.