Defencebit
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Full breach record for Defencebit →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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
defencebit.com zoominfo.com/c/defencebit/532842616 DefenceBit (founded 2018, Lisbon) is a boutique cybersecurity consulting firm — self-described "hackers, but the good ones" — spun off from Bullray-CIT, an Angolan-government-focused critical-systems integrator. It provides offensive-security services: penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, hardening, source-code and web/API audits, mobile app audits, social-engineering tests and full Red Team engagements, working to PTES/OWASP/OSSTMM standards with manual verification. The team holds top certifications (CEH, CISSP, PMP, Checkpoint CCSE, ISO 27001) and its co-founder later moved to a senior role at the NATO Communications and Information Agency. A notable credential is its contract with Portugal's National Cybersecurity Centre (CNCS) to run the "Cidadão Ciberseguro" course for government workers on the state NAU platform. It remains a very small company (1–10 staff)
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Sep 29, 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
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
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.