Was SKF.com hit by ransomware?

SKF.com was listed by the ransomed ransomware operation (Sweden), 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 ransomed ransomware group?

ransomed 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 SKF.com breach?

ransomed published data attributed to SKF.com (~2.19 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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SKF AB

listed as SKF.com · Claimed by Ransomed · listed 3 years ago

2.19 TB

Data size

$100.000

Ransom

demanded

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 3, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Country: Sweden
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Sep 3, 2023
Data size: 2.19 TB
Ransom demanded: $100.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SKF AB is a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, specializing in the manufacture of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems, and related services. Founded in 1907, SKF operates in approximately 130 countries and serves industries including automotive, aerospace, industrial machinery, and energy. The company is one of the world's largest bearing manufacturers with revenues in the multi-billion euro range.

Industry: Bearings & Rotating Equipment Manufacturing
Address: Hornsgatan 1, 415 50 Gothenburg, Sweden
Employees: 40000
Founded: 1907

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 2.19 TB from a major global industrial manufacturer, including databases and customer data at scale. The involvement of two threat actor groups, the large volume of data, and the threat to share with competitors elevates impact. Customer PII and proprietary industrial data are likely included at this scale.

The Ransomed group, claiming collaboration with the Everest Ransomware Group, states it compromised SKF's network and exfiltrated approximately 2.19 TB of data including internal documents, databases, and customer data, while threatening to share stolen data with competitors if the $100,000 ransom is not paid.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal documents
Databases
Customer data

What the group claims

SKF�s network was compromised(by collaboration withEverest Ransomware Group) a few days ago. The company continues to be silent about the problem.A representative of the company should contact us immediately, instructions have all been sended in the emails.Otherwise, we will start communicating with your competitors.Data stolen : 2.19 TerabytesData Info : Internal Documents, Data Bases, Customer [�]We require a ransom of $100,000

Sources

Victim siteskf.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 3, 2023SKF.com listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Data size: 2.19 TB
Ransom demanded: $100.000

Other recent disclosures by ransomed

ransomed has been linked to 68 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, SKF.com is reported in Sweden, a country with 111 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means SKF.com 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, CERT-SE (Sweden), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on ransomed'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.