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Craisa

bd_b9edccf3542d10bf · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 21, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Craisa →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen 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: Not FoundDiscovered: 2026-09-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

craisa.com zoominfo.com/c/craisa/345610542 CRAISA S.A. is a Costa Rican distributor of agricultural, construction, and industrial machinery, founded in 1981 and headquartered in Heredia. It is the official exclusive dealer of CASE IH (agriculture) and CASE Construction Equipment in Costa Rica, covering the entire country through branches in Heredia, San Carlos, Guápiles, and Cartago. The company also distributes specialty brands including Antonio Carraro (Italian specialty tractors), Hangcha (forklifts), XAG agricultural drones, and precision farming systems (Raven/Trimble), while offering in-house service workshops, genuine parts supply, and equipment financing. It employs around 43 people with a highly loyal management core (many directors with 15–22 years of tenure), operates under SAP Business One, and holds official "Carbono Neutral" certification from the Costa Rican government.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 21, 2026

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

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  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
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  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-02-28

thegentlemen

According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.

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