Disclosure context

About dunghill

The dunghill ransomware group is a relatively new financially-motivated cybercriminal operation that emerged in April 2023, with documented attacks against 16 victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on limited public reporting, the group's origin and affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service operation. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting business services and technology sectors, with attacks documented across the United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, Bolivia, and Taiwan, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of initial access brokers to expand their geographic reach. While specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports, their multi-country victim distribution suggests they employ common initial access vectors such as phishing, credential theft, or exploitation of internet-facing vulnerabilities. No major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions against the dunghill group have been publicly reported, likely due to their recent emergence and relatively small victim count compared to more established ransomware operations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with limited public visibility into their operations. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 10, 2023; most recent post July 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 27, 2023Gentex Corporation listed by dunghillon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gentex Corporation is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Gentex Corporation

Claimed by dunghill · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 27, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: dunghill
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 27, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gentex Corporation is an American electronics and technology company headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan. The company develops, designs, and manufactures automatic-dimming rear-view mirrors, camera-based driver assistance systems, dimmable aircraft windows, and HomeLink wireless control systems, serving major global automotive OEMs and aviation markets. Its customer base includes GM, Ford, BMW, Mercedes, Tesla, Airbus, Toyota, and others.

Industry: Automotive Electronics & Aerospace Components Manufacturing
Address: 600 N. Centennial St., Zeeland, MI 49464
Employees: 5000-10000
Founded: 1974

Attack summary

Severity: high — Gentex is a major supplier to critical automotive and aerospace industries; data_published status confirms exfiltration occurred, and the company's sensitive OEM customer relationships, proprietary technology, and product designs represent significant business and potentially supply-chain-impacting data exposure.

The Dunghill ransomware group claims to have attacked Gentex Corporation and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of company data; no ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company internal data
Customer information (major automotive/aerospace OEMs)
Product design and technology documentation
Business operations data

What the group claims

Gentex Corporation is an American electronics and technology company that develops, designs and manufactures automatic-dimming rear-view mirrors, camera-based driver assistance systems, and other equipment for the global automotive industry. They produce dimmable aircraft windows for the commercial, business and general aviation markets. In addition, the company produces photoelectric smoke detectors, signaling devices, and the HomeLink Wireless Control System for the North American fire protection market. The company's customers are GM, Ford, BMW, Mercedes, Tesla, Airbus, Audi, Toyota, Mazda, Nissan, Honda, Porshe, Bentley and so on.

Sources

Victim sitegentex.com
Leak posthttp://p66slxmtum2ox4jpayco6ai3qfehd5urgrs4oximjzklxcol264driqd.onion/index3.html

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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