Was Shelly Engineering Metal Work hit by ransomware?

Shelly Engineering Metal Work was listed by the Ciphbit ransomware operation (United Kingdom), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Ciphbit ransomware group?

Ciphbit is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Shelly Engineering Metal Work breach?

Ciphbit published data attributed to Shelly Engineering Metal Work. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Shelley Engineering Metal Work

listed as Shelly Engineering Metal Work · Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 3 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 14, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ciphbit
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Sep 14, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Shelley Engineering (Shelley's) is a United Kingdom-based bespoke metalwork company founded by Peter Shelley in the 1960s and incorporated in 1979. The company offers end-to-end metalwork services including bespoke design, manufacture, build, and installation with full project management. It has grown steadily and positions itself as a leader in its field, relying heavily on repeat business and referrals.

Industry: Bespoke Metal Fabrication & Installation
Founded: 1960

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (confirmed exfiltration), but the leak post provides no details on data volume, specific sensitive categories (e.g. PII at scale, financial, regulated data), or operational disruption. The victim is a small-to-medium private manufacturing firm, limiting likely regulatory exposure.

The Ciphbit ransomware group claims to have published data stolen from Shelley Engineering Metal Work, with the disclosure status listed as data_published. No specific data categories or volume have been detailed in the leak post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business/operational data
Customer records
Project documentation

What the group claims

Shelley's was founded by Peter Shelley in the 1960's. Steady growth led to incorporation in 1979 and in 2006 when Peter retired, the company was taken over by two of his daughters. It has grown every year since then to become a leader in its field. We repeat business with many of our customers and receive new business mainly through referral. Shelley's are known by its customers for "delivering an end to end metalwork service for bespoke design and manufacture" . We offer build and installation for projects, with top to tail project management. Our workshop facilities include the latest design, construction and finishing technologies, delivering unrivalled quality and projects delivered on time and on budget.

Sources

Victim siteshelleyengineering.co.uk

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, 2023Shelly Engineering Metal Work 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:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Shelly Engineering Metal Work is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ciphbit means Shelly Engineering Metal Work 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.