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Klüber Lubrication

bd_445e57363961ab0b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Nov 17, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Klüber Lubrication

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Payoutsking 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: ManufacturingClaimed data size: 1.2TBDiscovered: 2025-11-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Klüber Lubrication is a German-based company specializing in the development, production, and distribution of high-quality lubricants for a wide array of industries. These range from automotive and rail to wind energy and food & beverages. With a longstanding history, Klüber Lubrication is well-known for its innovative, efficient, and environmentally-friendly specialties that cater to specific customer requirements. Its services also include comprehensive consultation and support.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Nov 17, 2025

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 2025-04-17

payoutsking

According to ransomware.live, PayoutsKing is an active ransomware group observed through at least 2026 that has claimed attacks against a wide range of industries internationally — including Del Monte Foods and V. FRAAS — across the US, UK, Germany, and Ireland using standard double-extortion tactics.

110 victims claimed globally110 tracked hereFull profile →