Disclosure context

About Vendetta

Vendetta is a relatively minor ransomware group that emerged in February 2023, appearing to be financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely unknown due to limited public reporting, though their small scale of operations suggests they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a major ransomware-as-a-service operation. Details regarding Vendetta's specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms or government agencies, indicating either highly targeted operations or limited visibility into their activities. With only three known victims since their emergence, Vendetta has not conducted any widely reported major campaigns or attracted significant law enforcement attention, distinguishing them from more prominent ransomware groups that typically generate extensive threat intelligence reporting. The group's current operational status remains unclear due to the limited public documentation surrounding their activities, though the small number of attributed victims suggests either highly selective targeting or limited operational capacity. The group has been linked to 3 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 12, 2023; most recent post February 27, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 21, 2023Highwealth listed by Vendettaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Real Estate sector. Geographically, Highwealth is reported in Taiwan, a country with 12 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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Highwealth Construction

listed as Highwealth · Claimed by Vendetta · listed 3 years ago

39m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 21, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vendetta
Status: Data leaked
Country: Taiwan
Sector: Real Estate
Listed on leak site: Feb 21, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Highwealth Construction is a Taiwanese real estate developer and homebuilder headquartered in Kaohsiung with over 30 years of history. The company began operations in Kaohsiung and has since expanded northward across Taiwan, with projects in Tainan, Taichung, Hsinchu, Taipei, and the New Taipei area. It focuses on developing and selling residential properties across multiple major Taiwanese cities.

Industry: Residential Real Estate Development & Construction
Address: Kaohsiung, Taiwan (headquarters; operations expanded to Tainan, Taichung, Hsinchu, Taipei, and New Taipei)

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration from a real estate developer that likely holds significant PII (buyers, contracts, financial transactions) across multiple Taiwanese cities. The data_published status elevates severity above medium even in the absence of detailed inventory.

The Vendetta ransomware group claims to have attacked Highwealth Construction and has published the data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data; the specific data types and volume were not detailed in the truncated post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal company documents
Potentially customer/buyer records
Potentially financial records

What the group claims

In the best location, build the best house, the best homeMore than 30 years ago, we started our business in Kaohsiung. After laying the foundation, we developed all the way north and expanded to Tainan, Taichung, Hsinchu, Taipei, New...

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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