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M-1 Toolworks

bd_903dbb8e7f40f439 Β· schema v1 Β· pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

β€”

Filed

Feb 20, 2025

To disclose

β€”

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for M-1 Toolworks β†’

Threat-actor claim β€” not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Apos 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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2025-02-20

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text Β· scraped from the leak site

🌐 m1toolworks.comπŸ’² 8000000πŸ“ United States

Incident timeline β€” mostly unverified

? β€” ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 20, 2025

Claim posted

β€”

No filing yet Β· watching

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

Claim β†’ filing

β€”

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident β€” 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 β€” 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 βœ• fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-26

apos

According to ransomware.live, Apos is a data-broker extortion group that surfaced in April 2024, focusing on data exfiltration and threatening to publish or sell stolen information rather than encrypting files, targeting technology, healthcare, manufacturing, telecom, and government sectors across multiple countries.

16 victims claimed globally16 tracked hereFull profile β†’