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Torin Drive

Claimed by Blackbyte · listed 4 years ago

47m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 28, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackbyte
Status
Data leaked
Country
China
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Aug 28, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Torin Drive is a Chinese manufacturer specializing in elevator traction machines, lift components, compressor airends, construction elevator speed reducers, and high-quality castings. Founded in 1985 and designated a Key High-tech Enterprise under China's State Torch Plan, the company operates a world-class factory with an R&D test tower. Its products serve diverse regional lift markets globally, with over 1,200,000 units running simultaneously worldwide across Asia, Europe, and North America series product lines.

Industry
Elevator & Drive Equipment Manufacturing
Founded
1985

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the group, confirming exfiltration of business data from a significant industrial manufacturer with global operations; however, no regulated PII, medical, or government data is explicitly evidenced, keeping this at high rather than critical.

Blackbyte claims to have attacked Torin Drive and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it detail the volume or nature of data stolen.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company operational data
  • Manufacturing/engineering documents
  • Business records

What the group claims

Torin Drive, the specialized manufacturer of the elevator traction machines, the lift components, the compressor airends, the construction elevator speed reducers, other drive equipment and high quality castings, launched its production of elevator traction machines in 1985.As Key High-tech Enterprise of State Torch Plan, we have world class factory with R&D test tower and the advanced equipment. Torin Drive aims at the diversified needs of clients and the various regional lift markets to develop the products in accordance with the diverse criterions, such as Asia Series, Europe Series, and North America Series, etc. Each day, more than 1，200，000 units of Torin Drive elevator traction machines are running simultaneously in the buildings throughout the globe. TORIN DRIVE strives for the most excellent elevator components production group with the intention of providing the personalized supporting and all-round service for the clients.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blackbyte

BlackByte is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that emerged in October 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group is suspected to operate from Russia or former Soviet states based on their use of Russian-language forums and avoidance of targeting organizations in Commonwealth of Independent States countries, though they maintain no confirmed links to other established ransomware families. BlackByte operators typically gain initial access through vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of remote desktop protocol (RDP) services, employing tools such as Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and data exfiltration before deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses AES-256 encryption with RSA-2048 key protection. The group has demonstrated particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors, with the FBI and CISA issuing joint advisories in February 2022 highlighting attacks against organizations in government, healthcare, manufacturing, and education sectors, including notable incidents affecting San Francisco's transportation authority and multiple healthcare systems across the United States. BlackByte remains active as of 2024, continuing to evolve their tactics and maintain their leak site for publishing stolen data from victims who refuse to pay ransoms. The group has been linked to 147 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 4, 2021; most recent post July 30, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 28, 2022Torin Drive listed by Blackbyteon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blackbyte

Blackbyte has been linked to 147 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, Torin Drive is reported in China, a country with 72 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blackbyte means Torin Drive 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Blackbyte'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.