8Base is a digital extortion group that has been active since 2022. Since 2023, it has intensified its double extortion operations: it encrypts systems, steals data, and publishes victims’ information on its leak site.
Between February and May 2023, General de Alimentos Nisa C.A. (GENICA), a Venezuelan food products company, suffered a ransomware attack attributed to the 8BASE threat group. The threat actor listed GENICA on its data leak site, with conflicting dates suggesting that the data may have been downloaded in February 2023 and disclosed in May 2023. The full scope of the data breach and its material impact on the organization are unknown, as the company has not issued any official statement.