Was RSA Automation hit by ransomware?

RSA Automation was listed by the Barracuda ransomware operation (South Korea), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Barracuda ransomware group?

Barracuda is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the RSA Automation breach?

Barracuda published data attributed to RSA Automation. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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RSA Automation

Claimed by Barracuda · listed 7 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 11, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Barracuda
Status: Data leaked
Country: South Korea
Sector: Industrial Automation
Listed on leak site: Aug 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

RSA Automation is an industrial automation company operating in South Korea with an online presence at rsautomation.co.kr. The company appears to work with sensor and control systems.

Industry: Industrial Automation

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of proprietary source code and firmware for industrial control systems (motion sensors, SCADA-related components) represents significant intellectual property theft and potential operational risk to downstream manufacturers and infrastructure.

Barracuda claims to have exfiltrated complete server and developer files, including source code for motion sensors and firmware, as well as legal documents and schematics. The group also references selling databases and files from multiple other victim companies (Namyang Industrial, Micro-Comm Inc., Skyline Implants & Periodontics) in the same post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Source code (C, C++)
Firmware files
Schematics
Legal documents
Developer personal files
NAS contents
Mitsubishi motion sensor source code
Panasonic source code

What the group claims

Full dump of all files from the servers and developers personal files and NAS. Legal documents, letters, drawings, assembly, C, and C++ source codes. Includes source code for Mitsubishi motion sensors and Panasonic source codes, firmware files, schematics, legal documents, and more.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Full dump of all files from the servers and developers personal files and NAS. Legal documents, letters, drawings, assembly, C, and C++ source codes. Official manufacturer website: rsautomation.co.kr. Among the documents, you can find source code for Mitsubishi motion sensors and Panasonic source codes. There are also numerous firmware files, schematics, legal documents, and much more.
### Namyang Industrial Co., Ltd. \ NAMYANG NEXMO
Selling fresh full database dumps of company Namyang Industrial Co., Ltd. (renamed to Namyang Nexmo). Infrastructure dump, not website! There information about employers, manufacturing, parts, clients, partners and etc. Total lines (csv format): 17 641 181.
Micro-Comm, Inc. is an industrial automation company based in Olathe, Kansas, that provides water and wastewater control systems, manufacturing control panels, micro-controllers, and SCADA software. [http://www.micro-comm-inc.com]. Tree of all files: https://www.filemail.com/d/vpqdvykqwssupsw. Files count: 894 963, documents type: maps, schemes, personal employers information, personal citizens information, work photos, emails, partners personal information
### Ferrell \ Skyline Implants & Periodont…

Data the group says was taken

source code
legal documents
firmware
schematics
NAS files
developer personal files

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Victim sitehttp://rsautomation.co.kr
Leak posthttp://uvm6hk4wwstfddja5z5htgtlehmfyflffijz6iozsuqyacyibzxefkqd.onion

Source

Indexed 7 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Barracuda

Barracuda is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, though limited public reporting exists given its recent emergence and relatively small confirmed victim count of four organizations. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with established threat actors or ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems have not been publicly confirmed by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time. Based on available victim telemetry, Barracuda has demonstrated a targeting pattern focused on manufacturing, healthcare, and technology sector organizations, with victim distribution concentrated across China, the United States, and South Korea, suggesting either opportunistic targeting within these regions or deliberate selection based on perceived ransom-paying capacity; specific details regarding initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methodology, or data exfiltration practices remain undocumented in open-source reporting. No major high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly documented, which is consistent with the group's nascent operational timeline and low confirmed victim count. Given its first observation date of August 2026 and the absence of substantial public intelligence, Barracuda should be considered an emerging and closely monitored threat whose full capabilities, affiliations, and operational scope remain to be established through continued tracking by the security research community. The group has been linked to 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2026; most recent post August 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 11, 2026RSA Automation listed by Barracudaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Barracuda

Barracuda has been linked to 14 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Industrial Automation sector. Geographically, RSA Automation is reported in South Korea, a country with 48 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Barracuda means RSA Automation appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, KrCERT/CC (South Korea), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Barracuda's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.