Auto Holler
thegentlemen listed this organization on its leak site on Sep 30, 2026.
- Listing date
- Sep 30, 2026
- Attack date
- Sep 29, 2026
Listing text
autohoeller.at zoominfo.com/c/auto-höller/431018598 Auto Höller (family business founded 1968 by Erwin and Monika Höller as a small filling station in Seekirchen) is a multi-brand car dealership and workshop in Eugendorf near Salzburg, Austria, employing 32 staff across two locations. It is an official long-standing dealer for Kia (top-5 Kia partner in Austria), Mazda (one of the largest in western Austria) and Isuzu commercial vehicles, selling new, young ("HÖLLISCH GUT" certified) and used cars plus fleet management, financing and a full-service workshop with body shop and §57a inspection station. Since 2006 it has been led by the founder's son Markus Höller (sole owner across three legal entities: GmbH, GmbH & Co KG and an Immobilien company), with total assets of €5.7M as of end-2024. The dealership is locally famous for its humor-driven marketing ("Höllisch gut" branding, cabaret evenings)
About the group
thegentlemen posted its first listing on Sep 9, 2025 and has listed 1,253 organizations to date.
The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.
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