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DVA - DVision Architecture

Claimed by Ransomexx · listed 3 years ago

37m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 1, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Listed on leak site
Jul 1, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

DVA - DVision Architecture is an Italian architecture and construction firm. The company's work spans from project digitisation and concept development through to construction site logistics and the realisation of building prototypes. Its approach is centred on the integration of digitalisation and sustainability across all projects it undertakes.

Industry
Architecture & Construction Design

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the group, indicating successful exfiltration of business-sensitive materials including proprietary architectural and construction project data. While no regulated personal data at scale is explicitly confirmed, the published status elevates this beyond medium severity.

RansomExx claims to have compromised DVA - DVision Architecture and has published data ('data_published' status), indicating exfiltration of company files. 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
  • Project design files
  • Construction site logistics documentation
  • Digital project archives
  • Internal company documents

What the group claims

Dalla digitalizzazione del progetto alla realizzazione di prototipi costruttivi: l’attività di DVA spazia dal concept di un intervento, all’organizzazione logistica di cantiere. Un approccio declinato secondo il connubio tra digitalizzazione e sostenibilità, orientamento cardine di tutte le scelte della società e rintracciabile in ognuna delle commesse prese in carico.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomexx

RansomEXX is a financially motivated ransomware operation that emerged in May 2020, targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on extracting ransom payments through encryption and data theft tactics. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with suspected ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminals based on code analysis and operational patterns observed by security researchers. RansomEXX operators typically gain initial access through exploiting public-facing applications, particularly targeting vulnerable VPN appliances and remote desktop services, before deploying their custom ransomware payload which uses strong encryption algorithms and is often preceded by data exfiltration to enable double extortion schemes where stolen data is threatened to be publicly released if ransom demands are not met. The group has been responsible for several high-profile attacks including incidents against government entities and major corporations, with documented cases involving ransoms in the millions of dollars, though specific victim details are often kept confidential by affected organizations. Based on recent threat intelligence reporting, RansomEXX continues to maintain active operations as of 2024, with ongoing campaigns targeting the technology and healthcare sectors primarily in the United States and Europe. The group has been linked to 86 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2020; most recent post June 20, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Ransom X, Defray777, Defray-777, Defray 2018.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 1, 2023DVA - DVision Architecture listed by Ransomexxon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, DVA - DVision Architecture is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomexx means DVA - DVision Architecture 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Ransomexx'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.