Was zonesoft.pt hit by ransomware?

zonesoft.pt was listed by the ranstreet ransomware operation (Portugal), 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 ranstreet ransomware group?

ranstreet 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 zonesoft.pt breach?

ranstreet published data attributed to zonesoft.pt. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Zone Soft

listed as zonesoft.pt · Claimed by Ranstreet · listed 3 years ago

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 21, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ranstreet
Status: Data leaked
Country: Portugal
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Dec 21, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Zone Soft is a Portuguese software company specializing in point-of-sale (POS), mobility, and commercial management solutions for restaurants, retail, and hospitality businesses. Operating for 20 years with over 42,000 licenses deployed across Portugal, Brazil, Spain, South Africa, and Cape Verde, the company serves more than 30,000 clients with integrated payment, invoicing, and inventory management platforms.

Industry: Point-of-Sale & Business Management Software
Founded: 2006

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor and the company handles sensitive customer and payment data for thousands of businesses across multiple countries. However, the absence of a leak post excerpt, proof file counts, and specific data inventory details limits confidence in impact assessment.

RanStreet group claims to have compromised Zone Soft and published exfiltrated data. No specific details on data scope, encryption activity, or proof files are provided in the available disclosure.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer databases
Business management records
Payment processing data
Client operational records

Sources

Victim sitezonesoft.pt

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ranstreet

Ranstreet is an obscure ransomware group that emerged in December 2023 with limited observed activity and appears to be financially motivated based on typical ransomware operational patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain unknown, with no publicly documented information from major threat intelligence sources regarding their country of origin, connections to other cybercriminal organizations, or operational structure. Their attack methodology, tools, and specific techniques have not been detailed in public reporting from established security research organizations, likely due to their minimal observed activity and limited victim base. The group has been linked to only one documented victim, with their targeting focused on Portugal, though the specific organization and impact details have not been disclosed in major threat intelligence reports. Ranstreet's current operational status remains unclear given the lack of substantial public documentation and their limited attack footprint since their recent emergence. The group has been linked to 1 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 21, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 21, 2023zonesoft.pt listed by ranstreeton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, zonesoft.pt is reported in Portugal, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ranstreet means zonesoft.pt 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.PT (Portugal), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on ranstreet'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.