Creative Liquid Coatings
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Full breach record for Creative Liquid Coatings →2 incidents on fileThreat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group ALPHV / BlackCat 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Founded in 1994, Creative Liquid Coatings operates as a full service supplier that streamlines the entire process beginning with product design, mold flow analysis, and feasibility studies, to advanced error proofing technology, assembly, and fully integrated secondary operations. The company has 3 plants located in the state and serves industries such as automotive, heavy truck, marine, powerspor ts, and structural medical furniture The company is headquartered in Kendallville, Indiana. Headquarters 2620 Marion Dr, Kendallville, Indiana, 46755, United States Phone Number ([REDACTED-PHONE] Website www.creativeliquidcoatings.com Revenue $145.6M ------------------------------------------------- Angle Advisors has announced that Creative Liquid Coatings Inc. (CLC) has acquired the assets of CK Technologies (CKT) from Cascade Engineering. Angle Advisors acted as the exclusive investment banking advisor to Cascade and CKT in completing this transaction. CKT is one of few suppliers in North America for very-large, injection molded plastic panels and parts for commercial trucks and buses. Operating facilities in Ohio, North Carolina, and Texas, CKT provides vertically integrated services utilizing 16 injection molding presses, automated paint finishing lines, and advanced assembly capabilities. Headquarters 1701 Magda Dr, Montpelier, Ohio, 43543, United States Phone Number ([REDACTED-PHONE] Website www.cktech.biz Revenue $114.2M ------------------------------------------------- On July 30, Creative Liquid Coatings (CLC) acquired the major assets of McKechnie Vehicle Components (MVC) located in Nicholasville, Ky. and at 12117 C.R .Koon Highway in Newberry. This transaction will expand CLC’s current footprint beyond Indiana and allow them to service customers across the United States. In addition, over 230 jobs have been saved and the future of these locations has been secured. Head
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Jun 16, 2023
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alphv
According to ransomware.live, The operators of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware began their activity in December 2021, making posts on Dark Web forums to promote their affiliate program, offering other actors the opportunity to engage in a 'new type of ransomware family' developed from scratch using the Rust programming language. Some clear evidence indicates that the actors behind this new ransomware are not new to cybercrime, and there were links to other affiliate programs such as DarkSide, BlackMatter, and REvil. (After several attacks against large companies, these groups faced pressure and arrests, necessitating the termination of their operations). As a security measure, the operators of ALPHV implemented the requirement for the execution of the ransomware payload by providing an 'access token,' which is supplied by the owners of the Ransomware-as-a-Service to the affiliate. This token is added to the victim's ransom note so that they can contact the threat actor responsible for encrypting the data. ALPHV affiliates employ double and triple extortion techniques, meaning the publication of the company's name on leak sites, threats of data leakage, and lastly, threats of DDoS attacks against the organization. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs