Ransomware victim disclosure

Compass Communications

Claimed by raworld · listed 1 year ago

18m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 11, 2024
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: raworld
Status: Data leaked
Country: New Zealand
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Dec 11, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Compass Communications is a New Zealand-based telecommunications company offering broadband internet, mobile phone plans, and home phone services to residential and business customers.

Industry: Telecommunications

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor (disclosed status confirmed), but no specific data types, proof count, or operational impact details are provided. Telecommunications companies typically hold customer PII and account information, warranting medium severity in absence of confirmation of regulated data exfiltration.

The raworld group claims to have compromised Compass Communications and published data from the breach. Specific details on what data was exfiltrated or whether encryption occurred are not provided in the available post.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Compass Communications is a telecommunications company based in New Zealand. It offers a range of services, including broadband internet, mobile phone plans, and home phone services. Known for competitive pricing and customer-focused service, Compass Communications caters to both residential and business customers, aiming to provide reliable connectivity solutions across the country.

Sources

Leak posthttp://raworldw32b2qxevn3gp63pvibgixr4v75z62etlptg3u3pmajwra4ad.onion/post/4225.html

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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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

December 11, 2024Compass Communications listed by raworldon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,643 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Compass Communications is reported in New Zealand, a country with 2 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.