Ransomware victim disclosure

Caetano Retail

listed as ibericar · Claimed by Monti · listed 1 year ago

17m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 22, 2024
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Monti
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Dec 22, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Caetano Retail is an automotive retail and distribution company operating under the caetanoretail.es domain in Spain. The company is part of the broader Caetano Group, which has a presence in vehicle sales and related services.

Industry: Automotive Retail & Distribution

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, without access to the actual leak post content, proof files, or specific details about data sensitivity/scale, severity cannot be elevated to 'high'. The automotive retail sector handles customer PII but this is not confirmed as exfiltrated here.

The Monti ransomware group claims to have attacked Caetano Retail and published exfiltrated data. The group's post title 'Auto Suckers' suggests data related to automotive operations was compromised.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business records
operational data

What the group claims

Auto Suckers

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Monti

Monti is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted encryption attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Monti's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence from major security firms or government agencies. The group has reportedly compromised approximately 110 victims since their emergence, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, and Italy, showing a particular preference for business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Limited public documentation exists regarding specific notable campaigns or high-profile attacks attributed to Monti, reflecting the group's relatively recent emergence and lower profile compared to more established ransomware operations. As of current reporting, Monti appears to remain an active threat, though comprehensive intelligence on their current operational status is limited in publicly available sources from major cybersecurity organizations and law enforcement agencies. The group has been linked to 110 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 7, 2022; most recent post May 8, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 22, 2024ibericar listed by Montion the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ibericar is reported in Spain, a country with 212 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.