Disclosure context

About akira

Akira is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat actor with over 1,500 documented victims. The group's country of origin remains unclear, though they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiation processes. Akira employs multi-faceted attack methodologies including exploitation of VPN vulnerabilities, particularly targeting Cisco VPN appliances, and utilizes living-off-the-land techniques along with legitimate administrative tools to avoid detection, while implementing double extortion tactics by exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy, with a particular focus on manufacturing, business services, technology, and construction sectors, though they have shown willingness to attack various industries. Despite being relatively new to the ransomware landscape, Akira has maintained consistent operations throughout 2023 and into 2024, with law enforcement agencies including CISA and FBI issuing advisories about their activities, though no major disruption operations have been publicly reported against the group as of late 2024. The group has been linked to 1,616 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 6, 2026ABI and Ideal Tape listed by akiraon 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, ABI and Ideal Tape is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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ABI and Ideal Tape

Claimed by akira · listed 15 days ago

14d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ABI and Ideal Tape are subsidiaries of American Biltrite Inc., a US-based manufacturer with roots dating to 1908. The company produces friction tapes and related adhesive tape products, distributing them globally through a network of industry-focused distributors and converters. Their product lines serve industrial and commercial markets worldwide.

Industry: Adhesive & Specialty Tape Manufacturing
Founded: 1908

Attack summary

Severity: high — Akira claims confirmed exfiltration of 11 GB of data with status marked as data_published, including employee PII and customer records, constituting significant business and personal data exposure at scale.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 11 GB of corporate data from ABI and Ideal Tape, with data described as published. The stolen data reportedly includes employee personal information, customer files, project files, contracts, and internal confidential documents.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal information
Customer files
Project files
Contracts
Internal confidential files

What the group claims

From the creation of our very first line of friction tapes in 1908, we have stuck to our belief in developing quality products, holding ourselves to the highest standards. ABI Tapes products are primarily sold through a worldwide network of select industry-focused distributors and con verters. ABI and Ideal Tape are subsidiaries of American Biltrite Inc. We will upload 11gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal information, customer files, proj ects, contracts, internal confidential files, etc.

Sources

Victim siteabitape.com

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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