Disclosure context

About Marketo

Marketo is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in December 2021 with primarily financial motivations, having compromised 32 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with no confirmed information available regarding their country of origin, connections to other cybercriminal organizations, or operational structure. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics have not been extensively documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies, though their targeting patterns indicate a focus on high-value sectors including automotive, healthcare, and government organizations. The group has demonstrated a geographic preference for victims in the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom, suggesting either regional operational capabilities or specific interest in these markets. Due to limited public documentation from authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security researchers, detailed information about notable campaigns, ransom demands, or specific attack vectors remains unavailable in the public domain. The current operational status of Marketo is unclear based on available public intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 32 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 7, 2021; most recent post March 14, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 7, 2021bowmanplating.com listed by Marketoon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, bowmanplating.com is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Bowman Plating Company, Inc.

listed as bowmanplating.com · Claimed by Marketo · listed 4 years ago

54m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 7, 2021
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Marketo
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Dec 7, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bowman Plating Company, Inc. is a metal finishing and surface treatment company founded in 1945, specializing in services for the aerospace and defense industries. Operating from a 70,000 sq. ft. facility near Downtown Los Angeles, the company provides barrel and rack plating, surface preparation, non-destructive testing (NDT), and chemical processing. It holds AS9100 certification, dual NADCAP accreditations (NDT and Chemical Processing), and is ITAR registered.

Industry: Aerospace & Defense Metal Finishing
Address: Near Downtown Los Angeles, California, United States
Founded: 1945

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Bowman Plating is ITAR-registered and serves aerospace and defense prime contractors, meaning exfiltrated data may include export-controlled technical information, defense-related manufacturing data, and sensitive customer records. Data-published status indicates confirmed exfiltration and public release of data from a defense-sector supplier.

The Marketo group claims to have exfiltrated data from Bowman Plating Company, with the disclosure status listed as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released or made available. No specific details about the volume or nature of the published data were captured in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
Potentially ITAR-controlled technical data
Customer/contractor records
Internal operational data

Sources

Victim sitebowmanplating.com

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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