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ZB Financial Holdings Limited

listed as zb.co.zw · Claimed by Madliberator · listed 2 years ago

24m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 17, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Madliberator
Status
Data leaked
Country
Zimbabwe
Sector
Financial
Listed on leak site
Jul 17, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ZB Financial Holdings Limited is a diversified financial services company listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. Originally established as The Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited in 1972, it evolved through several name changes (Rhodesia Banking Corporation, Rhobank, Zimbabwe Banking Corporation) before becoming ZB Financial Holdings. The group offers banking, insurance, investments, wealth management, and microfinance services across Zimbabwe.

Industry
Financial Services & Banking
Founded
1972

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are advertised in the leak post. No specific claims of data exfiltration or operational disruption are stated. This appears to be a listing-only announcement without substantive evidence.

Madliberator claims to have attacked ZB Financial Holdings. The leak post provides no specific details about the nature of the attack (encryption vs. exfiltration), data compromised, or proof of access.

low

What the group claims

In 1972, the company changed its name from The Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited to Rhodesia Banking Corporation Limited and then to Rhobank in 1979. It changed its name once again in 1981 to Zimbabwe Banking Corporation after the Government purchased the majority shareholding. ZB Financial Holdings is one of the most diversified financial services counter on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Madliberator

Madliberator is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a focused targeting approach across multiple continents. Based on their targeting pattern spanning Spain, Italy, Germany, South Korea, and South Africa, the group appears to operate internationally with no clear geographic origin established by security researchers, and their operational model as either independent operators or ransomware-as-a-service remains undetermined due to limited public documentation. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major security firms or government agencies. The group has primarily targeted business services, manufacturing, financial services, and government sectors, though no specific high-profile incidents or record ransom demands have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence providers. As of current reporting, Madliberator appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing targeting activities, though comprehensive analysis remains limited due to the group's relatively small victim count and recent operational timeline. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 17, 2024; most recent post October 1, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: mad liberator.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 17, 2024zb.co.zw listed by Madliberatoron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Madliberator

Madliberator has been linked to 16 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Madliberator dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial sector, which has 426 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, zb.co.zw is reported in Zimbabwe.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Madliberator means zb.co.zw 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 Madliberator'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.