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Marston Domsel

bd_42818c747f1f1321 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 16, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Marston Domsel

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ciphbit 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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2023-09-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Decades of experience have made MARSTON-DOMSEL a household name in the industry. We will continue to aim for the continuous optimisation of our product range in the future so that we can continue to set standards for functionality and performance. Problems are solved in collaboration with competent technicians, not just in Germany but also worldwide. All internationally acquired experience is incorporated together with research results to the benefit of the customer. The manufacturing facilities fulfil all relevant international standards. Due to optimised manufacturing processes, MARSTON-DOMSEL can pass on the benefits of costeffective production to the customer. We have our own laboratory in which we perform customer-specific tests such as resistance tests, elasticity measurements, tension measurements, temperature tests and viscosity measurements.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 16, 2023

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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.

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About this groupFirst seen 2023-09-14

ciphbit

According to ransomware.live, CiphBit is a ransomware-as-a-service group active since April 2023, targeting small-to-mid-sized businesses across the UK, Europe, and North America with 38 known victims, employing a data-broker model with selective free leaks to pressure victims alongside standard double extortion.

36 victims claimed globally36 tracked hereFull profile →