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CAS-CHILE

listed as caschile.cl · Claimed by VanHelsing · listed 1 year ago

15m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 5, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Chile
Listed on leak site
Apr 5, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CAS-CHILE is an information technology company with 30 years of experience specializing in the design, development, and maintenance of public and municipal management software. They develop IT platforms for government administration distributed across Chile.

Industry
Government & Public Sector Software
Founded
1994

Attack summary

Severity: high — CAS-CHILE develops and maintains critical public and municipal management software used across Chile. Compromise of such a vendor represents significant operational risk to government infrastructure and potentially affects numerous public entities dependent on their systems.

VanHelsing group claims to have compromised CAS-CHILE and published data from the attack. The specific data types exfiltrated and scope of operational impact are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government administration software
  • Public sector project data
  • Municipal management systems

What the group claims

CAS–CHILE® is a company with 30 years of experience in the Information Technology market, dedicated to the design, development, and maintenance of public and municipal management software. As experts in the design, construction, and maintenance of software for public management, we develop IT platforms distributed throughout the country with excellent results, backed by the improvement, optimiz

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About VanHelsing

VanHelsing is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in March 2025, appearing to be financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. Given their recent emergence and limited public documentation, details about their specific country of origin and affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting of multiple Western nations suggests they may operate from outside these jurisdictions. The group has demonstrated a preference for high-value sectors including healthcare, technology, and financial services, with attacks spanning the United States, Australia, Chile, France, and Italy, though their specific attack vectors and technical methodologies have not been extensively documented by major security firms or government agencies. With only eight known victims since their March 2025 emergence, VanHelsing appears to be a smaller-scale operation that may be conducting targeted attacks rather than broad spray-and-pray campaigns. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited public intelligence available suggests they have not yet achieved the notoriety or scale of more established ransomware operations. The group has been linked to 8 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 17, 2025; most recent post April 5, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 5, 2025caschile.cl listed by VanHelsingon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, caschile.cl is reported in Chile, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by VanHelsing means caschile.cl 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 VanHelsing'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.