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Siinqee Bank

listed as siinqeebank.com · Claimed by Lockbit5 · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 21, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lockbit5
Status
Data leaked
Country
Somalia
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Sep 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Siinqee Bank is a licensed Ethiopian financial institution offering inclusive banking services including domestic and international banking, digital banking, microfinance, and Sharia-compliant Islamic financial products (Ihsan IFB). The bank operates from Addis Ababa and serves retail, MSME, agricultural, and diaspora customers.

Industry
Financial Services – Commercial & Islamic Banking
Address
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Attack summary

Severity: low — The disclosure consists only of a listing/announcement with the victim name and generic description. No proof files, data samples, or operational impact are documented in the available post excerpt. No confirmation of exfiltration or encryption.

LockBit5 claims to have attacked Siinqee Bank. The leak post provides no detail on what data was exfiltrated or encrypted, and no proof files or screenshots are advertised in the truncated excerpt provided.

low

What the group claims

Siinqee Bank is a licensed Ethiopian financial institution that offers inclusive and innovative bank...

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit5

Based on the provided data, LockBit5 appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in December 2025, representing what may be a new iteration or rebrand within the LockBit ransomware ecosystem, with primary financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors. Given the LockBit naming convention and the timing of emergence, this group likely operates from Eastern Europe or Russia and may represent either a continuation of previous LockBit operations or a new affiliate group leveraging the established LockBit brand, though specific organizational details remain undocumented by major security agencies. While detailed attack methodologies have not been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's targeting pattern across 157 victims suggests a broad-spectrum approach focusing on technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation sectors primarily in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Italy, and Mexico. Due to the group's recent emergence in December 2025, there are no publicly documented notable campaigns or major incidents reported by established threat intelligence sources, though the victim count indicates active operations. The group appears to be currently active based on the recent first observation date, though comprehensive analysis from major security agencies has not yet been published given the short timeframe since emergence. The group has been linked to 365 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 7, 2025; most recent post September 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 21, 2026siinqeebank.com listed by lockbit5 on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by lockbit5

lockbit5 has been linked to 365 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,195 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, siinqeebank.com is reported in Somalia.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit5 means siinqeebank.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 lockbit5'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.