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 6, 2026Transsion 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, Transsion is reported in China, a country with 29 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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Transsion

Claimed by AiLock · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: AiLock
Status: Data leaked
Country: China
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Transsion Holdings is a diversified international telecommunications manufacturing company founded in 2006, specializing in mobility solutions. The company operates in over 50 countries globally and is particularly well known for its mobile phone brands targeting emerging markets in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. It is headquartered in Shenzhen, China.

Industry: Telecommunications & Mobile Device Manufacturing
Employees: 10001+
Founded: 2006

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of proprietary source code, NDA documents, and internal business data from a large multinational technology manufacturer represents significant intellectual property and contractual exposure, though no PII at scale or regulated personal data is explicitly claimed.

AiLock claims to have exfiltrated internal data from Transsion Holdings, including source code repositories (git/git-ai), vendor proprietary code, NDA documents, and other internal documents, with the disclosure status indicating the data has been published.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Git source code repositories
AI-related git repositories
Vendor proprietary source code
NDA documents
Internal documents

What the group claims

Transsion Holdings is a diversified international telecommunications manufacturing company founded in 2006, specializing in mobility solutions with operations in over 50 countries globally.The data contains git, git-ai, vendor proprietary code, NDA documents, and other internal documents.

Sources

Victim sitetranssion.com

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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