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Katcon Global

bd_a02ffcaf4a1b9366 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Apr 2, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Katcon Global

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Crypto24 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: 2026-04-02

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

"Katcon Global" is a prominent automotive supplier, specialized in the field of developing, designing, and manufacturing advanced vehicle exhaust systems. Established in 1993 in Mexico, the company has now expanded worldwide at multiple locations, including Europe, Asia, Australia, and America. Besides exhaust systems, Katcon also provides solutions in energy recovery and sustainability sectors.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 2, 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 2023-12-13

crypto24

According to ransomware.live, Crypto24 is a double-extortion ransomware-as-a-service group that surfaced on the RAMP forum in mid-2024, targeting large organizations in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology across Asia, Europe, and North America, with notable victims including CMC Group, Vietnam's second-largest ICT conglomerate.

47 victims claimed globally47 tracked hereFull profile →