Was Southern Fire Sprinkler hit by ransomware?

Southern Fire Sprinkler was listed by the Ciphbit ransomware operation (United States), 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 Southern Fire Sprinkler breach?

Ciphbit published data attributed to Southern Fire Sprinkler. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Southern Fire Sprinkler

Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 2 years ago

21m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 28, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ciphbit
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 28, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Southern Fire is a fire protection services company operating in Mississippi and South Alabama, specializing in the design, installation, inspection, and maintenance of fire sprinkler systems, fire pumps, fire alarms, and related fire protection solutions for residential and commercial properties. The company emphasizes compliance with safety regulations and claims over 300 years of combined team experience.

Industry: Fire Protection Services & Systems Installation
Address: Hattiesburg, MS; D'Iberville, MS; Semmes, AL (multiple locations)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor (disclosed status confirmed), but the leak post provides no specific inventory of sensitive data types, scale, or proof files. No regulated data (PII at scale, financial records, medical data) is explicitly mentioned. The business model (fire protection services) suggests potential access to customer property information and service records, which carries moderate sensitivity.

Ciphbit claims to have compromised Southern Fire Sprinkler and published data from the breach. The post does not explicitly detail what data was exfiltrated or whether encryption occurred, only that the victim has been listed with data disclosed status.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business records
customer information
operational data

What the group claims

Southern Fire Sprinkler is a specialized company dedicated to the design, installation, and maintenance of fire sprinkler systems. They offer comprehensive fire protection solutions for both residential and commercial properties, ensuring compliance with safety regulations. With a team of experienced professionals, they focus on high-quality service, reliability, and customer satisfaction to safeguard lives and property.

Sources

Victim sitesouthernfiresprinkler.com

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

September 28, 2024Southern Fire Sprinkler listed by Ciphbiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ciphbit

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

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Southern Fire Sprinkler is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ciphbit means Southern Fire Sprinkler 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, CISA (United States), 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.