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1st Solution CTC GmbH

listed as 1st Solution CTC · Claimed by Bravox · listed 3 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 23, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Bravox
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Apr 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

1st Solution CTC GmbH is a German company headquartered in Herne that provides supplier audits and training services specialising in food, packaging, consumer products, and related services. The company operates in Germany, Europe, and worldwide, offering IFS Global Markets assessments, IFS Progress audits, and various compliance-focused training programmes.

Industry
Food Safety Training & Supplier Auditing
Address
Herne, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published but no specific volume, regulated PII at scale, or critical infrastructure impact is stated. The company handles supplier audit and compliance data which may include sensitive business records, warranting medium severity.

The group Bravox claims to have attacked 1st Solution CTC GmbH and has published data ('data_published' status), asserting the company provides training and audits for quality and compliance standards. No specific ransom amount or data volume has been stated.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business documents
  • Compliance and audit records
  • Training materials
  • Client/supplier data

What the group claims

The company provides training and audits to improve quality and ensure compliance with standards.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About bravox

Bravox is an emerging ransomware group first observed in February 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim selection. The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 9 organizations, though limited public reporting exists regarding their specific origin, country of operation, or confirmed affiliations with other cybercriminal groups. Based on available victim data, Bravox demonstrates a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Switzerland, France, and Canada, with particular focus on healthcare and agriculture/food production sectors, though their victim profile also includes entities from unspecified industry verticals. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited documented activity, detailed information regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or use of double extortion tactics has not been extensively reported by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the recency of their first observed activity in early 2026, comprehensive analysis of notable campaigns, major victim organizations, or law enforcement disruption efforts remains limited in publicly available threat intelligence reporting. The group's current operational status appears active based on the timeline of their emergence, though their relatively small victim count and limited public visibility suggest they may be a smaller-scale operation compared to more established ransomware groups. The group has been linked to 22 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 11, 2026; most recent post July 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 23, 20261st Solution CTC listed by bravoxon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by bravox

bravox has been linked to 22 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full bravox dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, 1st Solution CTC is reported in Germany, a country with 379 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by bravox means 1st Solution CTC 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, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on bravox'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.