Was Cerio hit by ransomware?

Cerio was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Taiwan), 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 thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen 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 Cerio breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Cerio. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Rockport Networks Inc.

listed as Cerio · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 19, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Taiwan
Listed on leak site: Mar 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cerio, a trade name of Rockport Networks Inc., develops a software-defined Accelerated Computing Platform designed to compose and manage GPU and AI infrastructure in data centers. The platform enables flexible, real-time allocation of accelerators (GPUs, TPUs) for workloads including media rendering, AI/ML, simulation, and generative AI. The company serves markets such as media and entertainment, financial services, and cloud computing.

Industry: Accelerated Computing & Data Center Infrastructure Software

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published, indicating potential exfiltration, but the leak post is inaccessible so specific data types, volume, and sensitivity cannot be confirmed. No ransom stated, no data size given, and no regulated/PII-at-scale evidence is visible.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked Cerio (Rockport Networks Inc.) with a disclosed status of 'data_published', suggesting data exfiltration has occurred; however, the leak post content is inaccessible (blocked by a bot-verification page), so the specific nature of the data and claimed actions cannot be independently verified from the post.

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What the group claims

cerio.io zoominfo.com/c/rockport-networks-inc/1330256755 Cerio is an accelerated computing platform focused on next-generation data center infrastructure for AI workloads . The company specialises in disaggregated infrastructure — decoupling compute, memory, and storage resources beyond a single PCIe domain to enable elastic capacity and optimized data movement at scale . Their approach aims to eliminate the "capacity trap" of traditional tightly integrated systems, making AI infrastructure more agile and efficient

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitecerio.io
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 483 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 19, 2026Cerio listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 483 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Cerio is reported in Taiwan, a country with 46 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Cerio 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 thegentlemen'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.