Disclosure context

About Vicesociety

Vicesociety is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through targeting critical infrastructure and public service organizations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undetermined by public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established RaaS model. Vicesociety primarily gains initial access through exploitation of public-facing applications and credential-based attacks, with documented cases showing they particularly focus on compromising remote access services and vulnerable web applications before deploying their ransomware payload across victim networks. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting educational institutions, government agencies, and healthcare organizations, with their 188 documented victims concentrated heavily in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Spain, indicating a focus on English-speaking and Western European entities. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively detailed in major public threat intelligence reports from CISA or FBI advisories, the group's consistent targeting of critical sectors like education and healthcare has drawn attention from security researchers monitoring threats to essential services. Vicesociety remains active as of recent threat intelligence assessments, continuing their operations against similar target sectors with no documented law enforcement disruption or significant operational changes. The group has been linked to 188 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 31, 2021; most recent post December 14, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 17, 2023Ecolog International listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ecolog International is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.

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Ecolog International

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 17, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 17, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ecolog International is a global provider of integrated services and sustainable solutions operating in over 50 countries across 5 continents, with a footprint in more than 40 countries and 30+ warehouses in 18 nations. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio spanning life support, supply chain management, construction, engineering, healthcare, environmental services, and facility management, supporting over 110,000 people globally. Originally established to support peacekeeping missions in the Balkans, Ecolog has grown into a large multinational with clients across the energy, construction, and defence/government sectors.

Industry: Integrated Facility Management & Supply Chain Services
Employees: 10000+
Founded: 2002

Attack summary

Severity: high — Ecolog International is a large multinational operating in defence-adjacent and government-contracted environments (peacekeeping missions, military logistics) across 50+ countries; data publication by Vice Society indicates confirmed exfiltration of significant business data from a company with substantial operational sensitivity and potential government/defence client exposure.

Vice Society claims to have attacked Ecolog International and the disclosure status indicates data has been published, suggesting exfiltration of company data. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business operations data
Supply chain management records
Facility management documents
Corporate files

What the group claims

Ecolog International is a multinational company that uses technology and supply chain management to provide services for a variety of industries including energy, construction, facility management and the environment.

Sources

Victim siteecolog-international.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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