Disclosure context

About Revil

REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, was a highly sophisticated ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in April 2019 and quickly became one of the most prolific and financially successful cybercriminal organizations, primarily motivated by financial gain. The group is believed to have originated from Russia, operating as a RaaS model where core developers rented their ransomware tools to affiliate criminals, and maintained connections to the now-defunct GandCrab ransomware operation with some researchers suggesting personnel overlap. REvil primarily gained initial access through exploiting vulnerabilities in remote desktop protocol implementations, phishing campaigns, and supply chain attacks, employing double extortion tactics where they exfiltrated sensitive data before encryption and threatened to publish it on their "Happy Blog" leak site if ransoms were not paid, using advanced encryption methods that made file recovery nearly impossible without payment. The group conducted several high-profile attacks including the devastating supply chain attack against Kaseya in July 2021 that affected thousands of downstream customers, attacks on major corporations like JBS Foods, and demanded ransoms reaching up to $70 million, ultimately leading to increased law enforcement attention and pressure from international authorities. Following coordinated law enforcement actions and mounting pressure from the U.S. and Russian governments in late 2021, REvil's infrastructure was taken down and the group ceased operations, with several suspected members reportedly arrested by Russian authorities. The group has been linked to 96 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 26, 2019; most recent post January 6, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Sodinokibi.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 20, 2022Visotec Group www.visotec.com listed by Revilon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Visotec Group www.visotec.com is reported in France, a country with 472 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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Visotec Group

listed as Visotec Group www.visotec.com · Claimed by Revil · listed 4 years ago

49m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 20, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Revil
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Apr 20, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Visotec is a French signage manufacturer specialising in signs, signage systems, and cladding solutions. The company operates internationally, offering its website in six languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, and Russian, suggesting a multi-market European and international presence. Its product scope covers exterior and interior signage as well as architectural cladding.

Industry: Signage & Cladding Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosed status is data_published, meaning REvil claims to have exfiltrated and released company data publicly. Even without detailed inventory, confirmed publication of business data by a prolific threat actor warrants a high severity rating. No evidence of regulated PII at scale prevents a critical classification.

REvil claimed responsibility for an attack on Visotec Group, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating the group asserts it exfiltrated and published company data. No specific details on the volume or nature of the published data were captured in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unknown — no leak post detail captured

Sources

Victim sitevisotec.com

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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