Was Macuz hit by ransomware?

Macuz was listed by the Ciphbit ransomware operation (Italy), 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 Ciphbit ransomware group?

Ciphbit 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 Macuz breach?

Ciphbit published data attributed to Macuz, around 160 employees records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Macuz

Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 2 years ago

160 employees

Records

27m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 9, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ciphbit
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Listed on leak site: Apr 9, 2024
Records: 160 employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Macuz is a historic Italian fashion accessories manufacturer founded in Florence in 1952, specializing in high-quality metal components and accessories for the luxury fashion industry. The company operates three facilities across Tuscany (Florence, Scarperia, Scandicci) with 154 employees and offers vertically integrated services including CNC machining, metal turning, polishing, galvanizing, laser engraving, and welding.

Industry: Fashion Accessories Manufacturing & Metal Processing
Address: Via Viale dei Mille, 90, 50131 Firenze (FI), Italy
Employees: 154
Founded: 1952

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only promotional/publicly-available company information from the victim's own website with no evidence of data exfiltration, proof files, screenshots, or operational impact. No sensitive data types are identified or advertised.

The Ciphbit group claims to have attacked Macuz and published data. The group's post reproduces corporate promotional material but contains no explicit statement of what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or compromised.

low

What the group claims

Founded in Florence in 1952 by Marcello and Alma Macuz, the company represents a historic pillar for the production in the Italian fashion industry, which over the years has been able to grow and consolidate following a philosophy based on strong territorial roots, craftsmanship and the highest quality of its productions. Thanks to the acquisition, Eurmoda will enrich its customer base and strengthen an already complete structure of technologies, skills and plants, which offers the full range of materials required by the high fashion segment, through a vertical service and a fully integrated supply chain. The Macuz family will reinvest in the Group and remain actively involved in the operational management of the companies. Over the past 25 years, Auro Macuz and his family, have transformed the artisan firm into an industry consisting of 3 companies, with over 160 employees and more than 7000 square metres of premises, while maintaining the initial idea and artisanship with which the company was founded and grew. The very high quality of its production is determined by the professionalism of its staff and the constant renewal of its machinery - with pantographs and CNC lathes and state-of-the-art laser engraving and welding machines - without overlooking the passion and attention with which the company supports its clients, starting from an idea or a design up to the delivery of accessories worldwide.

Sources

Victim sitemacuz.it

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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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

April 9, 2024Macuz listed by Ciphbiton the group's public leak site

Records: 160 employees

Other recent disclosures by Ciphbit

Ciphbit has been linked to 36 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Ciphbit dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Macuz is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ciphbit means Macuz 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Ciphbit'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.