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VAS Experts

listed as vasexperts.ru · Claimed by Lv · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 23, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lv
Status
Data leaked
Country
Russia
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Dec 23, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

VAS Experts is a Russian software developer specializing in traffic control and analysis solutions for telecommunications operators. Founded in 2013, the company has completed over 1,500 installations across the CIS region and internationally, offering platforms for DPI (Deep Packet Inspection), traffic management, QoS, mobile network solutions, and lawful interception compliance tools.

Industry
Telecommunications Software & Network Management
Founded
2013

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Exfiltration of 250 TB of source code, proprietary software, and technical assets from a telecommunications infrastructure vendor poses critical risk: loss of intellectual property, competitive advantage, and potential exposure of security mechanisms used by telecom operators across CIS region. The company develops lawful interception and network security tools (SORM compliance systems), making source code exposure particularly sensitive.

The Lv group claims to have exfiltrated a 250 TB data repository containing the company's unique software developments, source code, partner software distributions, and technical assets. The group states this represents a 'fatal' incident for multiple aspects of the company's operations and demands $640,000 for non-disclosure.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • proprietary software source code
  • software distributions
  • partner software source code
  • technical documentation
  • internal repositories

What the group claims

Компания VAS Experts — разработчик программного обеспечения для контроля и анализа трафика. Компания присутствует на IT-рынке с 2013 года. За время ее существования было произведено более 1500 инсталляций в СНГ и за рубежом.За время работы у компании сформирован достаточно объемный репозитарий,содержащий как уникальные разработки компании,так и дистрибутивы,исходные коды программного обеспечения партнеров компании.Наша организация с пониманием относится к ценности подобных массивов данных,однако халатное отношение к хранению и обработке,привело к утечке.Критическая оценка скомпрометированных данных позволяет нам оценивать инцедент как фатальный для многих аспектов деятельности компании.Объем массива 250 тб.Стоимость не разглашения 640000$.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Lv

Lv is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with relatively low visibility compared to major ransomware families but maintaining consistent activity across multiple regions and sectors. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding Lv's specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their successful compromise of 115 documented victims across diverse sectors indicates they employ conventional ransomware deployment techniques. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and business services, with notable geographic focus on Russia, France, Malaysia, the United States, and the Netherlands, spanning sectors including energy, telecommunications, business services, media, and non-profit organizations. Current intelligence suggests Lv remains active as of recent reporting, though the group maintains a lower profile than prominent ransomware families and has not been subject to major law enforcement disruption operations. The group has been linked to 115 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 22, 2021; most recent post March 13, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 23, 2023vasexperts.ru listed by Lvon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Lv

Lv has been linked to 115 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Lv dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, vasexperts.ru is reported in Russia, a country with 63 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lv means vasexperts.ru 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Lv'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.