Was Caterpillar hit by ransomware?

Caterpillar was listed by the coinbasecartel ransomware operation (United States), 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 coinbasecartel ransomware group?

coinbasecartel 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 Caterpillar breach?

coinbasecartel published data attributed to Caterpillar. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Caterpillar

Claimed by Coinbasecartel · listed 9 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 20, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Coinbasecartel
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jul 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Caterpillar Inc. is a multinational manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Operating in over 190 countries, it serves construction, mining, energy, and transportation sectors through equipment sales, financial services, and aftermarket parts.

Industry: Construction & Mining Equipment Manufacturing
Address: Irving, Texas, US

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed_status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration; however, the post excerpt does not specify data type, volume, or sensitivity level, and no proof files are documented in the available material.

The coinbasecartel group claims to have conducted an attack on Caterpillar and published data; specific details on encryption, exfiltration scope, or data categories are not provided in the available post excerpt.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Caterpillar Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Operating in over 190 countries, Caterpillar serves industries including construction, mining, energy, and transportation through its equipment, financial services, and aftermarket parts divisions.

Sources

Leak posthttp://fjg4zi4opkxkvdz7mvwp7h6goe4tcby3hhkrz43pht4j3vakhy75znyd.onion/companies/caterpillar

Source

Indexed 9 days ago

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Disclosure context

About coinbasecartel

CoinbaseCartel is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025 with financially motivated operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has demonstrated significant activity in a short timeframe, compromising at least 102 known victims primarily across the United States, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, and Brazil. Their targeting patterns show a preference for technology companies, financial services organizations, manufacturing entities, and consumer services businesses, suggesting an opportunistic approach focused on organizations likely to have both valuable data and the financial resources to pay ransoms. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, details regarding their specific attack methodologies, infrastructure, and organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. The group appears to maintain active operations as of late 2025, though comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits further investigation and reporting by established threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 192 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 15, 2025; most recent post July 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: coinbase cartel.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 20, 2026Caterpillar listed by coinbasecartelon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by coinbasecartel

coinbasecartel has been linked to 192 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,684 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Caterpillar is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by coinbasecartel means Caterpillar 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on coinbasecartel'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.