Disclosure context

About benzona

Benzona is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in November 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has conducted at least 14 documented attacks within a short timeframe since their emergence, suggesting an active operational tempo. Given the limited public documentation available from major threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding the group's country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model remain unclear, though their diverse geographic targeting spanning Romania, India, Côte d'Ivoire, Taiwan, and France suggests either a broad operational scope or potential ransomware-as-a-service model. The group's attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their targeting of healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality and tourism, and technology sectors indicates they may be opportunistic in their victim selection rather than following highly specialized targeting criteria. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Benzona have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or major security firms, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively limited scale of operations compared to established ransomware families. Given the group's recent first observation date of November 2025, Benzona appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security researchers have not yet been published due to the group's nascent operational history. The group has been linked to 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 26, 2025; most recent post January 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 26, 2025dacia-ploiesti.ro listed by benzonaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, dacia-ploiesti.ro is reported in RO, a country with 10 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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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Dacia Ploiești

listed as dacia-ploiesti.ro · Claimed by benzona · listed 6 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 26, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: benzona
Status: Data leaked
Country: RO
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Nov 26, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Dacia Ploiești (dacia-ploiesti.ro) is a Romanian automotive dealership or service center associated with the Dacia brand, located in Ploiești, Prahova County, Romania. Dacia is a major Romanian car manufacturer (part of the Renault Group), and this entity likely operates as an authorized dealer or service partner in the Ploiești region.

Industry: Automotive Dealership & Services
Address: Ploiești, Prahova County, Romania

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published, indicating some level of exfiltration and disclosure, but no details on data type, volume, or sensitivity are available; the target is a regional automotive dealership without evidence of regulated or large-scale sensitive data exposure.

The ransomware group 'benzona' claims to have attacked dacia-ploiesti.ro, with the disclosure status listed as data_published, suggesting data exfiltration has occurred. No specific data volume, ransom demand, or detailed leak post content is available to further characterize the attack.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

Sources

Victim sitedacia-ploiesti.ro

Source

Indexed 6 months ago

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