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Zip24 - ShipOx

Claimed by Cipherforce · listed 5 months ago

4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 23, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Cipherforce
Status
Data leaked
Country
UAE
Sector
Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site
Feb 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Zip24 - ShipOx is a logistics company based in the UAE specialising in shipping and freight forwarding. It offers technology-driven solutions including real-time shipment tracking, package handling, and secure delivery services for both business and individual customers. The company aims to manage the complete lifecycle of a shipment through modern, integrated platforms.

Industry
Shipping & Freight Forwarding

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The disclosure status is 'data_published', confirming some level of exfiltration and public release, but no details on data type, volume, or sensitivity (e.g. PII, financial records) are provided, and the leak post description is AI-generated with no verifiable proof inventory, preventing a higher severity classification.

The cipherforce ransomware group claims to have compromised Zip24 - ShipOx and has published data, indicating exfiltration of company data; no ransom figure or specific data volume has been disclosed in the post.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

"Zip24 - ShipOx" is an advanced logistics company specializing in shipping and freight forwarding. They offer technology-based solutions designed for the modern era, including real-time tracking, efficient handling, and quick, secure delivery of packages. Their main aim is to streamline the complete lifecycle of a shipment, making their services beneficial for both businesses and individuals.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About cipherforce

CipherForce is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in February 2026, appearing to be financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. Given their recent emergence and limited public documentation, details about their specific country of origin and affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting of victims across the United States, United Arab Emirates, India, China, and Vietnam suggests either a geographically distributed operation or deliberate international scope. With only six known victims documented to date, the group appears to focus on technology companies, business services, and transportation/logistics sectors, though their attack methodology and specific tools have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established security researchers, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small victim count. CipherForce appears to remain active as of current reporting, though their limited operational history makes it difficult to assess their long-term viability or potential for expansion. The group has been linked to 6 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 23, 2026Zip24 - ShipOx listed by cipherforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by cipherforce

cipherforce has been linked to 6 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 Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Zip24 - ShipOx is reported in UAE, a country with 81 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by cipherforce means Zip24 - ShipOx 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on cipherforce'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.