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, 2023popolo.bg listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $15.000

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail & Consumer sector. Geographically, popolo.bg is reported in Bulgaria, a country with 19 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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popolo.bg

Claimed by ransomed · listed 3 years ago

$15.000

Ransom

demanded

32m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 26, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Country: Bulgaria
Sector: Retail & Consumer
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2023
Ransom demanded: $15.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Popolo.bg is a Bulgarian e-commerce or retail website operating under the .bg domain. At the time of review, the site was temporarily unavailable due to technical maintenance related to the transition from the Bulgarian lev to the euro, suggesting it processes financial transactions. The company's specific product or service offering cannot be fully determined from available data.

Industry: Retail & Consumer (E-commerce)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data exfiltration is claimed and the disclosure status is 'data_published', but no proof files, data volume, or specific sensitive data categories (e.g. PII, financial records) are described, limiting confidence in the scope and impact.

The ransomed group claims to have exfiltrated data from popolo.bg and threatens to publish all obtained information unless a ransom of $15,000 is paid. No details on encryption or specific data types were provided in the leak post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unspecified exfiltrated company 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 $15,000

Sources

Victim sitepopolo.bg

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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