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

September 16, 2023TransTerra listed by Ciphbiton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation & Logistics sector. Geographically, TransTerra is reported in Netherlands, a country with 54 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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Ransomware victim disclosure

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Transterra Polska Sp. z o.o.

listed as TransTerra · Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 3 years ago

32m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 16, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Ciphbit
Status: Data leaked
Country: Netherlands
Sector: Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site: Sep 16, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Transterra Polska Sp. z o.o. is a Polish international trucking company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. The company operates a fleet of 82 trucks (MAN, Volvo, Iveco, Mercedes) providing trailer trucking, ADR bulk, and foodstuffs transport services across Europe and Scandinavia. It also offers specialized transport of liquid bulk containers, refrigerated trailers, and hazardous goods (ADR/IMO certified).

Industry: International Road Freight & Logistics
Address: Warszawa, Poland
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 2004

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating successful exfiltration. The company handles logistics operations including ADR/hazardous goods transport, and likely holds employee PII, client contracts, and operational data. Published exfiltration of significant business data warrants a high severity rating.

Ciphbit claims to have exfiltrated data from Transterra Polska Sp. z o.o. and has published the data. No ransom amount was stated and no specific data size was disclosed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company operational data
Employee/driver records
Dispatcher and staff information
Client transport orders
Fleet management data

What the group claims

Transterra Polska Sp. z o.o. is a dynamic international transport company, which is specialized in international trucking. In 2004 we started our activities and each year we realize a steady pace of growth. In the meantime we have grown until a fleet of 82 units and there are still lots off perspectives and challenges for further development in the future. Raymond Stolk started the company with a fleet existing of five trucks. The focus was on long-distance trailer transport between ports and train terminals throughout Europe and Scandinavia. In 2010 we reached the number of 30 running trucks, In 2015 we started our activities in ADR bulk and foodstuffs with the first five ADR equiped trucks with compressors. In the following years we will grow this new service We are experiencing steady growth and this year our fleet consists of 65 trucks of the brands MAN, VOLVO, IVECO and MERCEDES with an average age of 3 years and EURO 6 certification.

Sources

Victim sitetransterra.nl

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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