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AB&AG SROC – António Belém & António Gonçalves

listed as António Belém & António Gonçalves · Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 2 years ago

19m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 13, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ciphbit
Status
Data leaked
Country
Portugal
Listed on leak site
Dec 13, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AB&AG SROC is an independent financial audit and accounting services firm based in Carnaxide, Portugal. The company provides auditing and financial consultation to clients. The actual website content contradicts the group's leak post description of artisanal products.

Industry
Financial Audit & Independent Accounting Services
Address
Rua Amélia Rey Colaço nº 40, Piso 2, Sala 23 B, 2790-017 Carnaxide, Portugal

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status confirmed, but no proof files, file count, or data size provided. Financial/audit firm data is moderately sensitive (client PII, business records), but lack of concrete evidence of exfiltration scope limits confidence.

Ciphbit claims to have compromised António Belém & António Gonçalves. The leak post contains AI-generated content mischaracterizing the company as an artisanal goods producer, suggesting the group may lack detailed knowledge of the victim or the post is fabricated.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • financial records
  • client audit files
  • accounting data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

António Belém & António Gonçalves is a company specializing in high-quality artisanal products. Known for its craftsmanship and attention to detail, the company offers a range of handmade goods, emphasizing sustainability and traditional techniques. With a commitment to excellence, it serves a discerning clientele seeking unique and authentic items, blending heritage with contemporary design.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 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

  • December 13, 2024António Belém & António Gonçalves 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

Geographically, António Belém & António Gonçalves is reported in Portugal, a country with 28 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ciphbit means António Belém & António Gonçalves 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, CERT.PT (Portugal), 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.