Was ctelift.com hit by ransomware?

ctelift.com was listed by the Madliberator 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 Madliberator ransomware group?

Madliberator 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 ctelift.com breach?

Madliberator published data attributed to ctelift.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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CTE SpA

listed as ctelift.com · Claimed by Madliberator · listed 2 years ago

22m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 6, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Madliberator
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 6, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CTE SpA is an Italian manufacturer of aerial work platforms and lifting equipment founded in 1981. Based in Rivoli Veronese in the Veneto region, the company designs and produces truck-mounted and tracked platforms for working at height, serving customers across Italy, Europe, and North America. They also offer post-sale services including maintenance, spare parts, and authorized workshops.

Industry: Aerial Work Platforms & Lifting Equipment Manufacturing
Address: Rivoli Veronese (VR), Località Terramatta, 5, Italy
Founded: 1981

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are advertised in the available post excerpt. No specific data categories or operational impact are mentioned. The post appears to be announcement/listing only.

Madliberator claims to have breached CTE SpA. The group's post reproduces company marketing text but provides no specific details about the nature of the attack (encryption vs. exfiltration), data types targeted, or operational impact.

low

What the group claims

Since 1981 CTE has been creating solutions to make working at height easier and safer. This is our promise. A company with an Italian heart and history behind it along with an international vocation. We continue to put our customers at the center of our projects and services. We listen to the needs of each of our clients. Companies from all over Italy, Europe and North America rely on CTE having found a partner who can meet their expectations.

Sources

Victim sitectelift.com
Leak posthttp://k67ivvik3dikqi4gy4ua7xa6idijl4si7k5ad5lotbaeirfcsx4sgbid.onion

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Madliberator

Madliberator is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a focused targeting approach across multiple continents. Based on their targeting pattern spanning Spain, Italy, Germany, South Korea, and South Africa, the group appears to operate internationally with no clear geographic origin established by security researchers, and their operational model as either independent operators or ransomware-as-a-service remains undetermined due to limited public documentation. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major security firms or government agencies. The group has primarily targeted business services, manufacturing, financial services, and government sectors, though no specific high-profile incidents or record ransom demands have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence providers. As of current reporting, Madliberator appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing targeting activities, though comprehensive analysis remains limited due to the group's relatively small victim count and recent operational timeline. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 17, 2024; most recent post October 1, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: mad liberator.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 6, 2024ctelift.com listed by Madliberatoron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Madliberator

Madliberator has been linked to 16 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, ctelift.com is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Madliberator means ctelift.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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Madliberator'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.