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Your Financial Partner in Zimbabwe

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Jul 13, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Madliberator on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2024-07-17

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

In 1972, the company changed its name from The Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited to Rhodesia Banking Corporation Limited and then to Rhobank in 1979. It changed its name once again in 1981 to Zimbabwe Banking Corporation after the Government purchased the majority shareholding. ZB Financial Holdings is one of the most diversified financial services counter on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 13, 2024

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-05-27

madliberator

According to ransomware.live, MadLiberator is a ransomware group that emerged in mid-2024, known for erratic behavior including randomized ransom demands and unpredictable encryption patterns, targeting government entities including the Italian Ministry of Culture and using a data leak site to post exfiltrated files.

16 victims claimed globally16 tracked hereFull profile →