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

March 23, 2026Schmiede listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Schmiede 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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Schmiede Corporation

listed as Schmiede · Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 23, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Mar 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Schmiede Corporation specializes in high-precision contract machining, focusing on complex and difficult-to-machine components with tight tolerances. The company provides services including rebuilding, retrofitting, remanufacturing, and the production of specialty machines, fixtures, and gages. The company is based in Germany.

Industry: High-Precision Contract Machining & Industrial Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant business data including employee PII, contracts, and project records; data publication is stated as forthcoming, indicating active data leak threat with both personal and commercially sensitive material at stake.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated corporate data from Schmiede Corporation, including employee personal information, project records, and contracts, with publication of the data described as imminent.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal information
Project records
Contracts
Corporate data

What the group claims

Schmiede Corporation specializes in high-precision contract machi ning, focusing on complex and difficult-to-machine components wit h tight tolerances. The company offers a range of services includ ing rebuilding, retrofitting, remanufacturing, and the production of specialty machines, fixtures, and gages. We will upload corporate data soon. Employee personal information , projects, contracts, etc.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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