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Customs Support Group (CSG)

listed as customssupport.be · Claimed by Lockbit3 · listed 2 years ago

23m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 19, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Belgium
Listed on leak site
Jul 19, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Europe's leading independent customs and trade solutions provider operating across 15 countries with 120+ offices. CSG handles import/export clearance, customs classification, duty optimization, and trade advisory services for 60,000+ clients, processing 4 million+ customs declarations annually with 1,700+ customs experts.

Industry
Customs Clearance & Trade Compliance Services
Employees
1700
Founded
1999

Attack summary

Severity: high — CSG handles sensitive cross-border trade data for 60,000+ clients across Europe. Compromise of customs clearance records, shipping documentation, and business declarations exposes both CSG's operational data and significant client information. The scale (4M+ annual declarations) and regulated nature of customs data elevates risk despite no specific proof inventory being quantified in this post.

LockBit3 claims to have accessed CSG's systems. The group references the company's core business functions (import/export, goods classification, customs consultancy) in the leak post, indicating operational data compromise.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customs clearance records
  • Client declarations and shipping data
  • Customs classification information
  • Trade advisory documentation
  • Client business records
  • Employee/staff information

What the group claims

We are specialised in - Import, export, and transit - Goods Classification - Customs Consultancy

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit3

LockBit 3.0, also known as LockBit Black, is a prominent ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in June 2022 as the third major iteration of the LockBit ransomware family, operating with primarily financial motivations and becoming one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally. The group is believed to operate from Russia or former Soviet states, functioning as a sophisticated RaaS platform that recruits affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. LockBit 3.0 employs multiple initial access vectors including exploitation of remote desktop protocols, vulnerable VPN appliances, and phishing campaigns, utilizing a fast-encrypting ransomware payload that can complete network-wide encryption in minutes while implementing triple extortion tactics that include data theft, encryption, and threats to leak stolen information on their dedicated leak site called "LockBit Black Blog." The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against thousands of organizations worldwide, with notable victims including major corporations and critical infrastructure entities across their primary target countries of the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, focusing heavily on business services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and government sectors. Despite law enforcement disruptions including Operation Cronos in February 2024 which temporarily seized their infrastructure and websites, LockBit has demonstrated resilience by quickly rebuilding their operations and continuing to recruit new affiliates and victims. The group has been linked to 2,016 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 29, 2022; most recent post December 5, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 19, 2024customssupport.be listed by lockbit3on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,080 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, customssupport.be is reported in Belgium, a country with 44 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit3 means customssupport.be 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.be (Belgium), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on lockbit3'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.

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