Was SKF.com hit by ransomware?

SKF.com was listed by the Ransomedvc ransomware operation (Sweden), 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 Ransomedvc ransomware group?

Ransomedvc 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 SKF.com breach?

Ransomedvc published data attributed to SKF.com (~2.19 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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SKF AB

listed as SKF.com · Claimed by Ransomedvc · listed 3 years ago

2.19 TB

Data size

$100.000

Ransom

demanded

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 3, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomedvc
Status: Data leaked
Country: Sweden
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Sep 3, 2023
Data size: 2.19 TB
Ransom demanded: $100.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SKF AB is a Swedish multinational industrial manufacturer headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, specialising in bearings, seals, lubrication systems, and related technologies for rotating equipment. The company serves a broad range of industries including automotive, aerospace, energy, and heavy machinery, operating in over 130 countries. SKF is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange and is one of the world's largest bearing manufacturers.

Industry: Industrial Bearings & Rotating Equipment Manufacturing
Address: Hornsgatan 1, 415 50 Gothenburg, Sweden
Employees: 40000-50000
Founded: 1907

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 2.19 TB of confirmed exfiltrated data from a major global industrial manufacturer includes customer records, internal databases, and business documents at scale; the disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating actual release, and the involvement of two threat actor groups increases exposure risk significantly.

RansomedVC, acting in collaboration with Everest Ransomware Group, claims to have exfiltrated 2.19 TB of data from SKF's network, including internal documents, databases, and customer data, and is threatening to share the material with competitors if a $100,000 ransom is not paid.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal documents
Databases
Customer data

What the group claims

SKF�s network was compromised(by collaboration withEverest Ransomware Group) a few days ago. The company continues to be silent about the problem.A representative of the company should contact us immediately, instructions have all been sended in the emails.Otherwise, we will start communicating with your competitors.Data stolen : 2.19 TerabytesData Info : Internal Documents, Data Bases, Customer [�]We require a ransom of $100,000

Sources

Victim siteskf.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomedvc

Ransomedvc is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, representing one of the newer entrants in the ransomware ecosystem with a documented victim count of 68 organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, specific details about their country of origin and operational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent group rather than a established RaaS operation. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting critical infrastructure sectors, particularly focusing on Food & Agriculture and Healthcare organizations across a geographically diverse range of countries including Bulgaria, Brazil, Japan, Australia, and Russia, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of automated scanning tools to identify vulnerable systems. While comprehensive details about their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, their targeting of healthcare and food sector organizations suggests they may leverage the critical nature of these services to pressure victims into payment. The group's notable campaign activity appears concentrated in their operational period since mid-2023, though no major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or other authoritative sources. Ransomedvc appears to remain active as of the latest available intelligence, though their relatively recent emergence means their long-term operational patterns and potential for rebranding or law enforcement disruption remain to be observed. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 3, 2023SKF.com listed by Ransomedvcon the group's public leak site

Data size: 2.19 TB
Ransom demanded: $100.000

Other recent disclosures by Ransomedvc

Ransomedvc has been linked to 68 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Ransomedvc 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. Geographically, SKF.com is reported in Sweden, a country with 111 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomedvc means SKF.com 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, CERT-SE (Sweden), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Ransomedvc'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.