Disclosure context

About Cryptnet

Cryptnet is a relatively obscure ransomware group that first emerged in April 2023, appearing to be financially motivated based on their operational pattern of targeting organizations for ransom payments. Due to the limited public documentation available from major cybersecurity organizations and law enforcement agencies, details regarding their country of origin, affiliations, and operational structure remain unclear, though their small victim count of two documented cases suggests they operate as a minor player in the ransomware ecosystem rather than a large-scale Ransomware-as-a-Service operation. The group's attack methodology, technical capabilities, and specific tools used have not been extensively documented by reputable security researchers, likely due to their limited scope of operations and relatively recent emergence in the threat landscape. No major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported in connection with Cryptnet operations. Given the lack of recent public reporting and their minimal documented activity since emergence, their current operational status remains uncertain. The group has been linked to 2 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 19, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 19, 2023Export Hub listed by Cryptneton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

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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Export Hub

Claimed by Cryptnet · listed 3 years ago

37m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 19, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Cryptnet
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 19, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ExportHub Ltd. operates an online B2B marketplace (exporthub.com) connecting buyers and suppliers across a global network of countries. The platform offers business listings, product offerings, quote requests, and both free and paid membership tiers. It serves a wide international user base across virtually all countries worldwide.

Industry: Online B2B Marketplace & Trade Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely threatened) and ExportHub is a global B2B marketplace holding PII and business data for a large international user base including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and business information across numerous countries, representing significant scale of personal and commercial data exposure.

Cryptnet claims to have published data obtained from ExportHub, with the leak post referencing the platform's privacy policy language suggesting user personal and business information was compromised. The disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating exfiltration and publication of data rather than encryption alone.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

User personal information
Business information and listings
Product offerings data
User account details (names, email addresses, mobile numbers)
Country/location data
Membership and payment tier information

What the group claims

ExportHub Ltd. is committed to safeguarding its users' privacy. We request all our users to read the following 'privacy policy' to understand how their personal & business information will be treated, as they make full use of our services to their benefit. This policy is applicable only to the entire network of marketplaces operated by EH and not by any other company. ExportHub's primary goal in collecting personal or public information is to provide the user with a customized experience on our network of sites. This includes personalized services, interactive communication and other services, most of which are completely free and remaining are paid. Business information is used to display the user's business listing or product offerings across our network to fetch maximum business opportunities for the user....

Sources

Victim siteexporthub.com
Leak posthttp://blog6zw62uijolee7e6aqqnqaszs3ckr5iphzdzsazgrpvtqtjwqryid.onion/news/2

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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