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 24, 2025Kitevuc - Equipamentos E Veiculo listed by Ciphbiton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kitevuc - Equipamentos E Veiculo is reported in Brazil, a country with 319 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Kitevuc Equipamentos Veículos Utilitários

listed as Kitevuc - Equipamentos E Veiculo · Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 24, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Ciphbit
Status: Data leaked
Country: Brazil
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Sep 24, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kitevuc Equipamentos Veículos Utilitários (NIF 505708434) is a Portuguese company based in Folgosa, Maia, specialising in equipment and utility vehicles, including a 4x4 product line marketed under the KIT4x4 brand. The company operates an e-commerce-enabled website and can be reached by phone and email. Despite the victim record listing Brazil as the country, the public site and address data firmly place the company in Portugal.

Industry: Automotive Equipment & Utility Vehicle Sales
Address: Rua Cardosas, 1908, 4425-318 Folgosa - Maia, Portugal

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release, but no specific sensitive data categories (e.g. medical, financial at scale) are evidenced, the company is a small automotive equipment retailer, and the leak post provides no detail on volume or content.

The Ciphbit ransomware group has listed Kitevuc with a status of 'data_published', indicating data has been exfiltrated and released; however, the leak post contains no specific claims about encryption, volume of data stolen, or categories of data exposed.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer personal data
Contact information
Potentially business/operational records

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

Sources

Victim sitewww.kitevuc.com

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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