Disclosure context

About Cuba

The Cuba ransomware group is a financially-motivated cybercriminal organization that emerged in February 2021 and has since conducted attacks against at least 105 known victims globally. The group operates as an independent ransomware operation with suspected ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminals, though their exact country of origin remains unconfirmed by law enforcement agencies. Cuba ransomware operators primarily gain initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, exploitation of Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, and phishing campaigns, subsequently deploying their custom Cuba ransomware payload which encrypts victim files while exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption as part of their double extortion strategy. The group has particularly targeted organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia, and Belgium, with a notable focus on critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and energy companies. According to FBI reporting, the Cuba ransomware group has demanded ransom payments ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars from their victims. As of recent threat intelligence assessments, the Cuba ransomware group remains active and continues to pose a significant threat to organizations across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has been linked to 105 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 3, 2021; most recent post February 1, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: COLDDRAW, Fidel.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 7, 2023panaya listed by Cubaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, panaya is reported in Israel, a country with 78 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.

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panaya

Claimed by Cuba · listed 3 years ago

30m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 7, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Cuba
Status: Data leaked
Country: Israel
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Nov 7, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Panaya is an Israeli technology company that provides a Change Intelligence Platform for ERP and CRM applications, including SAP, Oracle EBS, Salesforce, and Workday. The platform combines change impact analysis, test management, and test automation to reduce the time, cost, and risk of changes to enterprise business applications. Panaya serves over 3,500 enterprise brands globally across industries such as retail, finance, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.

Industry: Enterprise Software Testing & Change Intelligence
Employees: 201-500

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published (data_published status) by Cuba ransomware group against a SaaS/enterprise software company with 3,500+ enterprise clients; exfiltrated internal files from an ERP/CRM platform vendor could expose sensitive client integration data and intellectual property, constituting significant business data exfiltration.

The Cuba ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated files from Panaya, publishing the data with a stated receipt date in the post. The disclosure status is marked as data_published, indicating stolen files have been made available.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate files
Internal business documents

What the group claims

About PANAYAPanaya’s Change Intelligence solutions reduce the time, cost, and risk involved in change to business applications like SAP®, Oracle® EBS, and Salesforce.com. Date the files were received: 02...

Sources

Victim sitepanaya.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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