Ransomware victim disclosure

AKM

Claimed by everest · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 28, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: everest
Status: Data leaked
Country: JP
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: May 28, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Unable to identify the specific company. AKM is a common acronym used by multiple organizations across different industries and countries. Without additional identifiers (full legal name, sector, specific location, or domain), reliable attribution is not possible.

Attack summary

Severity: low — No verifiable proof files, operational impact, or data inventory details are documented. The victim cannot be reliably identified, and the leak post contains no substantive technical or business information.

The Everest ransomware group claims to have targeted an entity identified only as 'AKM' and published data. No details on the nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or data categories are provided in the available leak post.

low

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A There are multiple companies with the acronym "AKM" across various industries and countries, and without additional context (such as full company name, industry sector, or country), I cannot reliably identify which specific organization is being referenced or provide accurate threat intelligence details.

Sources

Leak posthttp://ransomocmou6mnbquqz44ewosbkjk3o5qjsl3orawojexfook2j7esad.onion/news/AKM/

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About everest

Everest is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, operating with a focus on profit-driven extortion campaigns against organizations primarily in the United States and Europe. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation exists regarding Everest's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their victim profile indicates they employ standard ransomware tactics targeting a diverse range of sectors including healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. Since their emergence, Everest has claimed responsibility for attacks against 339 victims across multiple countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Spain representing their primary geographic targets, though no specific high-profile incidents or major ransoms have been publicly documented by law enforcement or major security firms. As of current reporting, Everest appears to remain an active threat actor, though the limited public intelligence available suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent and well-documented criminal organizations. The group has been linked to 367 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post May 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 28, 2026AKM listed by evereston 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, AKM is reported in JP, a country with 88 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.