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

October 20, 2025Peppermint Properties listed by Ciphbiton 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, Peppermint Properties is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 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.

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Peppermint Properties

Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 20, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Ciphbit
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Oct 20, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Peppermint Properties is a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based residential property management and letting company that has operated since the 1950s. It manages a portfolio of rental properties across Halifax, including The Residences of Horseshoe Island on the Northwest Arm, offering services such as property letting, tenant resources, and online application processing. The company focuses on urban residential housing and has evolved its offerings to meet modern living standards.

Industry: Residential Property Management & Letting
Address: 7145 Quinpool Rd, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Founded: 1950

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, suggesting confirmed exfiltration; however, the company is a small regional residential property manager and no large-scale regulated data (e.g., medical or government) is indicated. Tenant PII (rental applications, co-signer forms) is likely involved, warranting medium severity in the absence of confirmed scale or highly sensitive data categories.

Ciphbit claims to have exfiltrated data from Peppermint Properties, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating data has been released. The specific nature and volume of stolen data is not detailed in the leak post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Tenant personal information
Rental applications
Co-signer forms
Property management records
Financial/lease documents

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

"Peppermint Properties" is a company engaged in real estate and property management services. They primarily focus on providing an easy and hassle-free property renting, buying and selling experience to clients. Offering a diverse portfolio, their services include property investment, residential letting, consulting, refurbishing properties and ensuring the property’s maintenance and safety regulations.

Sources

Victim sitepeppermintproperties.ca

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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