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Imperador S.R.L

Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 3 years ago

34m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 14, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ciphbit
Status
Data leaked
Country
Romania
Sector
Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site
Sep 14, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Imperador S.R.L. is a transportation and logistics company operating primarily in the Republic of Moldova and Romania, with service coverage across Europe, the USA, and Central Asia. The company offers freight and logistics solutions, maintaining cooperation contracts with partners across these regions. It applies information technologies to manage client supply networks from origin to final consumer.

Industry
Transportation & Logistics

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no specific volume, regulated data categories (e.g., PII at scale, financial, medical), or critical infrastructure disruption have been detailed in the post.

The Ciphbit ransomware group claims to have attacked Imperador S.R.L. and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though no specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business cooperation contracts
  • Client distribution network data
  • Employee records
  • Operational/logistics data

What the group claims

we are the company operating in the area of transportation and logistics by offering such services in the Republic of Moldova, Romania, the entire Europe, USA and Central Asia. Due to this, we have the possibility to offer transportation services in any moment to or from any area of Europe, USA or Central Asia. We have the cooperation contracts signed with the companies from the specified areas; in any time, we can offer an optimal solution for fast, safe and supervised transportation at affordable price. We use our network to help our clients to manage their goods in the most efficient way in any supply networks. As the companies address to IMPERADOR for transportation solutions, we authorize our employees to render our services to the clients by applying our information technologies. Today, IMPERADOR is radar in any industry that requires transportation or logistics. We work in close cooperation with our clients; analyse their distribution network, from the point of origin to the final consumer to identify the opportunities.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ciphbit

Ciphbit is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focused targeting approach across Western nations. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With limited public documentation from authoritative sources like CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively analyzed or reported in open-source intelligence. The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against 36 documented victims, primarily concentrating their operations in the United States, Italy, France, Germany, and Portugal, with a notable preference for targeting business services, manufacturing, healthcare, and construction sectors. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Ciphbit have been publicly documented by authoritative sources as of current reporting. Based on available intelligence, Ciphbit appears to remain active as of late 2023, though their relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation make definitive status assessments challenging without additional confirmed reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 14, 2023; most recent post February 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 14, 2023Imperador S.R.L listed by Ciphbiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ciphbit

Ciphbit has been linked to 36 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Ciphbit dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation & Logistics sector, which has 180 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Imperador S.R.L is reported in Romania, a country with 20 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ciphbit means Imperador S.R.L appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Ciphbit's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.