Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz Group AG is a German multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, manufacturing premium passenger cars and commercial vehicles under the Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-AMG, and Mercedes-EQ brands. It is one of the world's largest automotive manufacturers by revenue, reporting €153.2 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2024 and employing approximately 170,000 people globally. The company is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (XETRA: MBG) and has manufacturing operations across Germany, the United States, China, India, South Africa, and several other countries. The Daimler corporate restructuring in 2022 separated Mercedes-Benz from Daimler Truck, giving the passenger-car and van business its own listed identity.

Mercedes-Benz is referenced in the cyber-threat context because its global headquarters at Mercedesstrasse 120, Stuttgart places it in the same city as the Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart municipal government listed by the Rhysida ransomware crew on 19 May 2026. The company's own IT infrastructure is distinct from Stuttgart's municipal systems. However, city-government networks hold contractor, permitting, planning-permission, and public-service data that intersects with large HQ-based employers; the potential indirect exposure via municipal data is the assessed, not confirmed, supply-chain linkage.

Mercedes-Benz has its own substantial cyber-risk surface as a connected-vehicle and manufacturing-automation operator, and has previously disclosed data incidents of its own. In the Stuttgart context it appears as civic context rather than a primary victim.