G Theodor Freese
About the organisation
GTF Freese is a family-owned company with over 110 years of experience, specializing in ship deck coverings, flooring technology, building protection, and coating systems. The company prides itself on its motto 'We make floors good,' ensuring high-quality products like TEFROTEX and TEFROKA are manufactured under strict quality control according to DIN ISO 9001 standards.
What the listing means
G Theodor Freese appeared on the payload leak site on 21 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 G Theodor Freese as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on gtf-freese.de, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Manufacturing 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/RyBUaGVvZG9yIEZyZWVzZUBwYXlsb2Fk
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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.
