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Ardes

listed as ardes.bg · Claimed by Ransomed · listed 3 years ago

$50.000
Ransom
demanded
34m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 26, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomed
Status
Data leaked
Country
Bulgaria
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Sep 26, 2023
Ransom demanded
$50.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ardes (ardes.bg) is a Bulgarian online retailer operating at ardes.bg, primarily selling consumer electronics, home appliances, and related technology products to customers in Bulgaria. The company operates as an e-commerce platform serving the Bulgarian market. No further details on scale or founding date are publicly confirmed from available sources.

Industry
E-commerce / Consumer Electronics Retail

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data exfiltration is claimed and the status is 'data_published', suggesting some data has been released; however, no specific sensitive data categories (PII at scale, financial, medical) are confirmed, no data volume is stated, and proof details are absent, limiting severity to medium.

The Ransomed group claims to have exfiltrated data from ardes.bg and threatens to publish all obtained information unless a ransom of $50,000 is paid; no encryption is explicitly claimed.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Unspecified company data
  • Potentially customer records
  • Potentially business/operational data

What the group claims

We will leak all of the info we have on you if we dont get paid.We require a ransom of $50,000

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 26, 2023ardes.bg listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site
Ransom demanded
$50.000

Other recent disclosures by ransomed

ransomed has been linked to 68 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full ransomed 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, ardes.bg is reported in Bulgaria, a country with 23 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means ardes.bg 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 ransomed'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.