Was SCIPIONI hit by ransomware?

SCIPIONI was listed by the morpheus ransomware operation (Belgium), 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 morpheus ransomware group?

morpheus 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 SCIPIONI breach?

morpheus published data attributed to SCIPIONI. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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SCIPIONI

Claimed by Morpheus · listed 7 months ago

$5M

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 12, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Morpheus
Status: Data leaked
Country: Belgium
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: Dec 12, 2025
Ransom demanded: $5M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Scipioni is a Belgian company specializing in the distribution of petroleum products, operating since 1974. The company is located in the Charleroi region of Belgium. Their public website is currently in maintenance mode, with customers directed to contact the office by phone.

Industry: Petroleum Products Distribution
Address: Charleroi region, Belgium
Founded: 1974

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor (data_published status), indicating confirmed exfiltration of business data from an energy-sector company. While no regulated PII at scale is explicitly confirmed, the energy/petroleum sector classification and data publication elevate severity to high.

The Morpheus ransomware group claims to have attacked Scipioni and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), with the group listing a $5M figure likely representing either ransom demand or company revenue. No explicit data size was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business/operational data
Potentially financial records

What the group claims

**Website**: scipioni.be **Revenue**: $5 Million Scipioni is a company specializing in the distribution of petroleum products since 1974. Located in the Charleroi region.Scipioni is a company that s

Sources

Victim siteSCIPIONI.be

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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Disclosure context

About morpheus

Morpheus is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in January 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a targeted approach to victim selection across multiple geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may be operating independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. With 14 documented victims across diverse sectors including healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and hospitality, Morpheus has shown a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Spain, India, Mexico, and Belgium, indicating either a broad operational reach or the use of automated targeting mechanisms that transcend geographic boundaries. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics, techniques, and procedures remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting from major cybersecurity firms and government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence available from established sources such as CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers, notable campaigns and high-profile incidents have not yet been extensively documented or analyzed in the public domain. Morpheus appears to remain active as of early 2025, though comprehensive assessment of their current operational status is limited by the nascent nature of their observed activities and the lack of extensive public reporting on their operations. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 7, 2025; most recent post July 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 12, 2025SCIPIONI listed by morpheuson the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $5M

Other recent disclosures by morpheus

morpheus has been linked to 21 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 Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, SCIPIONI is reported in Belgium, a country with 44 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by morpheus means SCIPIONI 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.be (Belgium), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on morpheus'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.