Victim Claim
Design Engineering & Consulting
Claimed by
AiLock
Listed on leak site
18 May 2026
Reported attack date
18 May 2026
Group claims tracked
23
Unverified claim.
This entry reproduces a listing published by the AiLock group on its own extortion site.
Attackers routinely exaggerate or fabricate victims. Nothing here confirms that
Design Engineering & Consulting suffered a breach, or what data was actually taken.
About the organisation
Design Engineering & Consulting provides façade system design, shop drawings, engineering, and consulting services in a cost – effective and professional manner across the world.
What the listing means
Design Engineering & Consulting appeared on the AiLock leak site on 18 May 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 7 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Design Engineering & Consulting as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on decusa.com, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Business Services organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/RGVzaWduIEVuZ2luZWVyaW5nICYgQ29uc3VsdGluZ0BBaUxvY2s=