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AKIJ GROUP

bd_f3f61eec94e6f407 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 4, 2022

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for AKIJ GROUP

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Nightsky 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: 2022-01-04

Source: Ransomware.live

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 4, 2022

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 2022-01-04

nightsky

According to ransomware.live, Night Sky is a China-nexus ransomware group (attributed to the "Emperor Dragonfly" cluster) that emerged in late 2021, gaining notoriety in early 2022 by exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) to target corporate networks across healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing using multi-extortion tactics.

2 victims claimed globally2 tracked hereFull profile →