Was Craisa hit by ransomware?

Craisa was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation, 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 thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen 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 Craisa breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Craisa. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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CRAISA S.A.

listed as Craisa · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CRAISA S.A. is a Costa Rican distributor of agricultural, construction, and industrial machinery founded in 1981 and headquartered in Heredia. The company is the official exclusive dealer of CASE IH and CASE Construction Equipment in Costa Rica, also distributing specialty brands including Antonio Carraro tractors, Hangcha forklifts, XAG drones, and precision farming systems. It operates service workshops and parts supply across four branches.

Industry: Agricultural & Construction Machinery Distribution
Address: Heredia, Costa Rica (headquarters); branches in San Carlos, Guápiles, and Cartago
Employees: 43
Founded: 1981

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files or screenshots are advertised, no data inventory is detailed, and no operational disruption is claimed. The leak post contains only company background information sourced from ZoomInfo, with no evidence of data publication or proof of compromise.

The threat actor claims to have breached CRAISA S.A. and published data. No specific details are provided about what data was exfiltrated or whether encryption occurred.

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What the group claims

craisa.com zoominfo.com/c/craisa/345610542 CRAISA S.A. is a Costa Rican distributor of agricultural, construction, and industrial machinery, founded in 1981 and headquartered in Heredia. It is the official exclusive dealer of CASE IH (agriculture) and CASE Construction Equipment in Costa Rica, covering the entire country through branches in Heredia, San Carlos, Guápiles, and Cartago. The company also distributes specialty brands including Antonio Carraro (Italian specialty tractors), Hangcha (forklifts), XAG agricultural drones, and precision farming systems (Raven/Trimble), while offering in-house service workshops, genuine parts supply, and equipment financing. It employs around 43 people with a highly loyal management core (many directors with 15–22 years of tenure), operates under SAP Business One, and holds official "Carbono Neutral" certification from the Costa Rican government.

Sources

Victim sitecraisa.com

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 889 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2026Craisa listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 889 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Craisa 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 thegentlemen'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.