Was Gulliver International hit by ransomware?

Gulliver International was listed by the Blackbyte ransomware operation (Japan), 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 Blackbyte ransomware group?

Blackbyte 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 Gulliver International breach?

Blackbyte published data attributed to Gulliver International. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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IDOM Inc.

listed as Gulliver International · Claimed by Blackbyte · listed 3 years ago

39m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 15, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blackbyte
Status: Data leaked
Country: Japan
Sector: Automotive
Listed on leak site: Apr 15, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

IDOM Inc. (formerly Gulliver International) is a Japan-based publicly listed company operating in the used automobile market under the 'Gulliver' brand, with approximately 460 retail stores across Japan. The company purchases pre-owned cars from private customers, sells them through auctions to corporate clients, and also operates overseas in the US and Australia. Its business spans retail used-car sales, car subscription services (NOREL), franchise operations, and luxury/specialty vehicle brands.

Industry: Used/Pre-owned Automobile Retail & Auction
Address: Japan (specific street address not stated in available sources)

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the group (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of business data from a listed Japanese company with significant customer and corporate client exposure, even though specific data types and volume are not itemised.

BlackByte claims to have attacked Gulliver International (IDOM Inc.) and has published data ('data_published' status), asserting access to business information related to the company's pre-owned car sale, auction, and corporate client operations. The specific data types exfiltrated and volume are not detailed in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate client records
Auction transaction data
Pre-owned car purchase/sale records
Business operations data

What the group claims

Gulliver International is a Japan-based company that operates in three business segments. The Pre-owned Car Sale segment purchases pre-owned cars from general customers and sells purchased cars to corporate clients though auctions around Japan and GAO.

Sources

Victim siteglv.co.jp/

Source

Indexed 3 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

April 15, 2023Gulliver International listed by Blackbyteon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blackbyte

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Automotive sector, which has 101 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gulliver International is reported in Japan, a country with 220 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blackbyte means Gulliver International 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, JPCERT/CC (Japan), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.