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Demidov Steel Group

bd_e5742072a2e6b8e4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 18, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Demidov Steel Group

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Auditteam 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: 2026-08-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Demidov Steel Group (ГК Демидов) is a Russian metal products manufacturer and trader, website: demidovsteel.ru. The company owns its own plants (Ryazan, Davlekanovo, Novocherkassk, and others), sells wholesale and retail, and supplies 4,000+ products including steel pipes, structural shapes, sheet metal, and rebar, along with processing services such as cutting and galvanizing, plus delivery. Its network covers Moscow and more than a dozen other cities. The company has been in business for over 20 years and serves construction and industrial clients.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Aug 18, 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 2026-02-21

auditteam

According to ransomware.live, AuditTeam is a small ransomware group with approximately 5 known victims, primarily targeting organizations in East and Southeast Asia across technology and manufacturing sectors, operating a data leak site consistent with double-extortion methodology.

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