Was INDIBA Group hit by ransomware?

INDIBA Group was listed by the Cicada3301 ransomware operation (Spain), 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 Cicada3301 ransomware group?

Cicada3301 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 INDIBA Group breach?

Cicada3301 published data attributed to INDIBA Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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INDIBA Group

Claimed by Cicada3301 · listed 2 years ago

21m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 18, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Cicada3301
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Oct 18, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

INDIBA Group is a global medtech company based in Barcelona (Spain) and Treviso (Italy) with a 40-year legacy specializing in aesthetic, rehabilitation, and animal health medical devices. The group recently acquired K-Laser, expanding its portfolio in therapeutic technologies.

Industry: Medical Devices & Healthcare Technology (Aesthetics, Rehabilitation, Animal Health)
Address: Barcelona and Treviso
Founded: 1984

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration and publication from a regulated healthcare/medtech company handling sensitive operational and potentially customer/patient-related information. Healthcare sector data carries inherent sensitivity.

Cicada3301 claims to have exfiltrated data from INDIBA Group and threatened publication if ransom demands were not met. The group has confirmed data publication as the disclosed status indicates 'data_published'.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate/business records
Operational data

What the group claims

!!! IF THE COMPANY DOES NOT CONTACT US SOON, THE DATA WILL BE PUBLISHED !!!! INDIBA Group, based in Barcelona and Treviso, is a global medtech leader across the Aesthetics, Rehabilitation, and Animal Health industries, with a 40-year legacy of scientific research, strengthened further by the recent addition of K-Laser.

Sources

Victim siteindiba.com
Leak posthttp://cicadabv7vicyvgz5khl7v2x5yygcgow7ryy6yppwmxii4eoobdaztqd.onion/a57z2am4xe8ne98tvq6nifg22vutf3an

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Cicada3301

Cicada3301 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in June 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available regarding their operational structure or potential connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Based on observed targeting patterns, Cicada3301 has demonstrated a preference for attacking business services, technology, manufacturing, and financial sector organizations, with their operations concentrated primarily in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as extending to Spain and Singapore. The group has successfully compromised approximately 75 known victims since their emergence, though specific details regarding their attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Given the limited public documentation available from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, the group's current operational status, technical capabilities, and specific attack infrastructure remain largely uncharacterized in open-source intelligence reporting. As of the most recent observations, Cicada3301 appears to remain active in conducting ransomware operations, though comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits more detailed public reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 75 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 20, 2024; most recent post September 4, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 18, 2024INDIBA Group listed by Cicada3301on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Cicada3301

Cicada3301 has been linked to 75 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, INDIBA Group is reported in Spain, a country with 351 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Cicada3301 means INDIBA Group 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, INCIBE-CERT (Spain), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Cicada3301'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.