Disclosure context

About m3rx

Based on the limited publicly available information, m3rx is an emerging ransomware group first observed in April 2026 with a relatively small victim count of eight organizations, suggesting they are either a newly formed operation or a smaller-scale criminal enterprise focused on financial gain. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear, with no documented evidence from major security vendors or law enforcement agencies regarding their geographical base, operational structure, or whether they operate as an independent cell or as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern indicates a preference for English-speaking nations including Great Britain, Australia, and the United States, as well as operations in Switzerland and Italy, with victims spanning consumer services, business services, technology, and healthcare sectors. No major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant ransoms have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, likely due to the group's recent emergence and limited scope of operations. Given their recent first observation date and small victim count, m3rx appears to be in early operational stages with their current activity status and long-term viability remaining uncertain. The group has been linked to 19 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post May 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 29, 2026rotak.it listed by m3rxon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, rotak.it is reported in IT, a country with 195 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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Rotak S.N.C.

listed as rotak.it · Claimed by m3rx · listed 22 days ago

21d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 29, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: m3rx
Status: Data leaked
Country: IT
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Apr 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Rotak S.N.C. is a Sicilian company founded in March 1989, specialising in the repair, distribution, and commercialisation of automotive and fleet-management products, with a particular focus on digital and analogue tachographs, speed limiters, satellite localisation, and telematics. The company is an authorised Continental/VDO dealer and service centre covering Sicily and Calabria, and historically generated combined revenues of approximately €9.5 million. It also has interests in industrial automatic lubrication systems and fuel distribution.

Industry: Fleet Management, Tachograph Services & Automotive Telematics
Address: Priolo Gargallo (Siracusa), Sicily, Italy
Employees: 11-50
Founded: 1989

Attack summary

Severity: high — 22.5 GB / 20,000 files have been published, indicating confirmed exfiltration of significant business data. Given the company handles fleet telematics, vehicle location data, and commercial client records (including transport and fuel sectors), the exposure likely includes sensitive operational and potentially personal data at meaningful scale.

The threat actor m3rx claims to have exfiltrated approximately 22.5 GB of data comprising around 20,000 files from Rotak S.N.C., with the data described as published (disclosed status: data_published). No encryption claim is explicitly stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business/operational files (20,000 files, 22.5 GB)
Fleet management data
Customer records
Vehicle telematics data
Financial/commercial documents

What the group claims

Rotak (specifically in the context of Rotak Instruments) focuses on the distribution of specialized medical and analytical instrumentation, with related entities in industrial engineering and automation Stolen: 22.5gb 20k files

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim siterotak.it
Leak posthttp://4k6plf4h2cm2nco6ae3inrsxnmqgl6lllmwefydhnlcq4tuhwbj4qpad.onion

Source

Indexed 22 days ago

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