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ASHA Microfinance Bank Limited

listed as nigeria.asa-international.com · Claimed by Krybit · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 2, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Krybit
Status
Data leaked
Country
Nigeria
Sector
Professional Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ASHA Microfinance Bank Limited (ASA Nigeria) is a regulated Nigerian microfinance institution licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. It serves approximately 172,000 clients across 269 branches, providing small loans primarily to low-income female business owners with an outstanding loan portfolio of USD 21.9 million.

Industry
Microfinance Banking
Address
69 Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration from a regulated financial institution serving 172k clients. Exposure of microfinance customer records (PII, financial data, loan details) and institutional financial information poses significant harm to individual borrowers and operational risk to the bank.

The krybit ransomware group claims to have compromised ASHA Microfinance Bank Limited and published data from the breach. The group has disclosed the attack and published data, indicating exfiltration occurred.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • client records
  • loan portfolio data
  • financial records
  • customer personal information

What the group claims

ASHA Microfinance Bank Limited (ASA Nigeria) is a Nigerian for-profit deposit-taking microfinance institution, a fully l...

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About krybit

Krybit is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their limited documented attacks against diverse sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public intelligence, and it is unknown whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. With only four known victims documented across geographically diverse regions including Mexico, Austria, Japan, and Botswana, the group appears to employ broad targeting rather than focused regional or sector-specific campaigns, though their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and data exfiltration practices have not been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly reported, and no law enforcement actions against the group have been documented. Given the recent emergence of this group and extremely limited public reporting, Krybit's current operational status and capabilities remain largely unknown to the broader cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 88 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 3, 2026; most recent post August 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 2, 2026nigeria.asa-international.com listed by krybiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by krybit

krybit has been linked to 88 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 Professional Services sector, which has 7 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, nigeria.asa-international.com is reported in Nigeria, a country with 5 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by krybit means nigeria.asa-international.com 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on krybit'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.