Disclosure context

About nightspire

Nightspire is a ransomware group that first emerged in March 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having targeted over 215 victims in a relatively short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Nightspire appears to employ common ransomware attack vectors targeting organizations across multiple sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and construction industries, while demonstrating a geographic preference for victims in the United States, India, Taiwan, France, and Hong Kong. The group's rapid victim acquisition rate since their March 2025 emergence suggests an active and potentially effective operational capability, though specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, or extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited public reporting from established cybersecurity organizations like CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, Nightspire remains an active threat with insufficient public documentation to fully assess their operational sophistication or organizational structure. The group has been linked to 265 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 12, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 3, 2026TTAF Defense listed by nightspireon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 259 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, TTAF Defense is reported in TR, a country with 27 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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TTAF Savunma

listed as TTAF Defense · Claimed by nightspire · listed 2 months ago

47d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 3, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: nightspire
Status: Data leaked
Country: TR
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Apr 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

TTAF Savunma is a young Turkish defence and aerospace company headquartered in Ostim, Ankara. The company provides cabling, wiring harness, and electromechanical assembly services to platform manufacturers, and is expanding its portfolio with proprietary products. Its activity areas include aviation platforms, naval systems, and armoured vehicles.

Industry: Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing (Wiring Harness & Electromechanical Assembly)
Address: Ostim Mah. Ahi Evran Cad. 1212. Sok. No: 24 Ostim, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Türkiye
Founded: 2019

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a defence and aerospace contractor handling sensitive project and technical documentation for military platforms (armoured vehicles, aviation, naval systems). Confirmed exfiltration and publication of project files and technical/internal documents from a defence-sector company constitutes a critical disclosure with potential national-security implications.

The Nightspire ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from TTAF Savunma and has published the data; the disclosed categories include project files, financial documents, and quality/technical/internal documents.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Project files
Financial documents
Quality documents
Technical documents
Internal documents

What the group claims

- Projects- Financial Documents>- Quality & Technical & Internal Documents

Sources

Victim sitettafsavunma.com.tr

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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