Disclosure context

About Avoslocker

**Overview**: AvosLocker is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating as both a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform and conducting direct attacks against organizations worldwide. The group has demonstrated sophisticated capabilities and has targeted over 70 victims across multiple critical sectors. **Origin & Affiliation**: While the exact country of origin remains unclear, AvosLocker operates as a RaaS model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks using their ransomware payload and infrastructure. The group has shown no clear ties to state-sponsored activities, appearing to be purely profit-driven cybercriminals. **Attack Methodology**: AvosLocker typically gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, VPN vulnerabilities, and phishing campaigns, subsequently deploying tools like Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and persistence. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting systems and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. Their ransomware uses strong encryption algorithms and includes capabilities to terminate security processes and delete shadow copies to prevent recovery. **Notable Campaigns**: The group has particularly targeted critical infrastructure sectors including education, manufacturing, finance, healthcare, and transportation, with significant attacks reported against organizations in the United States, Germany, Singapore, Canada, and France. CISA and FBI have issued joint advisories warning about AvosLocker's targeting of critical infrastructure, highlighting the group's impact on essential services. **Current Status**: As of recent threat intelligence reporting, AvosLocker remains active, continuing to recruit affiliates and conduct ransomware operations against organizations globally. The group has been linked to 70 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 13, 2021; most recent post February 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Avos.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 26, 2022LPA Design listed by Avoslockeron 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, LPA Design 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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LPA Design

Claimed by Avoslocker · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 26, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Avoslocker
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Dec 26, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

LPA Design is a United States-based electronics research and development consulting firm specializing in printed circuit board design, RF communications, antenna optimization, and remote sensors. The company is notably credited with developing the PocketWizard line of photography wireless trigger products. It operates as a specialized engineering consultancy serving electronics and photography-related markets.

Industry: Electronics R&D Consulting & PCB Design

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the ransomware group. As an electronics R&D and engineering consultancy, LPA Design likely holds proprietary intellectual property, technical schematics, and engineering research that constitutes significant sensitive business data. Exfiltration and publication of such IP represents serious harm to the company and potentially its clients.

Avoslocker claims to have exfiltrated data from LPA Design and has published the data, as indicated by the 'data_published' disclosure status. The nature of the stolen data has not been explicitly itemized in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Engineering design files
R&D documentation
PCB design schematics
RF communications research
Business records

What the group claims

LPA Design is an electronics R&D consulting company with engineering expertise in printed circuit board design, RF communications and antenna optimization, and remote sensors. LPA Desing developed the PocketWizard™ line of photography products.

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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