Disclosure context

About AiLock

AiLock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 24 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad operational scope spanning the United States, Canada, Great Britain, China, and Germany. Based on publicly available information from security researchers, AiLock appears to focus on technology companies, consumer services, manufacturing, and public sector entities, though specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security firms. The group's relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation suggest they may be a smaller operation or newly formed entity, with no notable major campaigns or high-profile ransoms publicly reported by established threat intelligence sources. Given the March 2026 first observation date and lack of subsequent major public reporting, AiLock's current operational status and capabilities remain largely undetermined by mainstream cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 3, 2026; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 3, 2026ELO Digital Office listed by AiLockon 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, ELO Digital Office is reported in Germany, a country with 695 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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ELO Digital Office

Claimed by AiLock · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 3, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: AiLock
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ELO Digital Office is a Stuttgart-based German software company founded in 1996 that develops enterprise content management (ECM) systems and digitalization solutions. Its flagship product, the ELO ECM Suite, serves over 1.3 million users globally, supporting document management, process automation, archiving, and AI-driven workflows. The company targets industries including healthcare, finance, public administration, manufacturing, and more.

Industry: Enterprise Content Management Software
Address: Stuttgart, Germany
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 1996

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor against a software company whose ECM platform serves over 1.3 million enterprise users; a breach of this vendor could expose customer data, source code, or integration credentials, representing significant business and potentially supply-chain risk.

The AiLock ransomware group claims to have attacked ELO Digital Office and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify the volume of exfiltrated data or whether encryption was also performed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal business documents
Software development assets
Corporate records

What the group claims

ELO Digital Office, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Stuggart, Germany, is a provider of enterprise content management systems and develops software solutions to digitize business processes.

Sources

Victim siteelo.com

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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