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Y****e

Claimed by Raworld · listed 3 years ago

35m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 29, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Raworld
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Aug 29, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google (Alphabet Inc.), headquartered in San Bruno, California. It is the world's largest video-sharing website, hosting billions of videos and serving over 2 billion logged-in users per month. The platform supports content creators, advertisers, and premium subscription services.

Industry
Online Video Platform & Streaming
Address
901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, United States
Employees
10001+
Founded
2005

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The disclosure is marked data_published against an extremely high-profile platform, but no leak post content, proof files, or data inventory were captured. Without verifiable evidence of actual exfiltration or operational impact, severity cannot be elevated to high or critical. The claim against a platform of this scale warrants medium rather than low given the potential implications if substantiated.

The raworld ransomware group claims an attack against YouTube, with the disclosure status listed as data_published; however, no leak post content, ransom demand, or data size was captured to substantiate the specific nature or scope of the claimed exfiltration or encryption.

medium

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About raworld

Raworld is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in May 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available information, though their targeting patterns suggest they may operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, though their victim profile spanning multiple sectors including business services, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare suggests they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than highly specialized initial access vectors. With 112 documented victims across major economies including Germany, the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Italy, Raworld has demonstrated significant operational capability despite their recent emergence, though specific details about notable high-profile attacks or law enforcement disruption efforts have not been widely reported by major threat intelligence organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active, though the limited public intelligence available makes definitive assessment of their operational status challenging. The group has been linked to 112 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 6, 2023; most recent post December 28, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 29, 2023Y****e listed by raworldon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by raworld

raworld has been linked to 112 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full raworld dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,563 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Y****e is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by raworld means Y****e appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on raworld's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.