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Metrea LLC/Commuter Air Technology, Inc.

bd_222969cbc4cf38d8 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Sep 5, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Metrea LLC/Commuter Air Technology, Inc.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Aurora on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: TransportationDiscovered: 2026-09-05

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

[defence] Metrea LLC (formerly Meta Special Aerospace, LLC) and its subsidiary Commuter Air Technology, Inc. (CAT) are US defense contractors providing Contractor Owned, Contractor Operated (COCO) ISR aircraft services to US Special Operations Command. They operate modified King Air 350 surveillance aircraft in Niger, East Africa, the Philippines, and other theaters. <redacted> 339 MB of Harris PRC-117G military tactical radio firmware including compiled waveform binaries for SINCGARS, HAVEQUICK II, ROVER, and 10 other ITAR-controlled waveforms (USML Category XI). Named deployment data for 14+ operators at Sable Spear sites in Niger and East Africa, with rotation schedules, SIPRNet access documentation, and divert airfield planning. Complete SOCOM contract pricing portfolios — labor rates, burn rates, TINA-certified cost data, and subcontractor pricing for SOCPAC C3PO, Sable Spear, and Sable Dagger programs. 232 employee personnel files including resumes, W-9 forms (SSN), SERE training certificates, security clearances, expense reports, and deployment records. NSWDG (SEAL Team Six), MARSOC, and 75th Rangers training exercise documentation — 37 separately funded SOCOM training deliveries under the Alpha 28 program. <redacted>

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 5, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2026-04-17

aurora

According to ransomware.live, Aurora is a ransomware group associated with a multi-purpose Go-based malware distributed by multiple criminal teams from mid-2022, also sold as an infostealer/botnet under the same name on underground forums.

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Metrea LLC/Commuter Air Technology, Inc. data breach claim (2026) — unverified leak-site allegation · DisclosureLens