Was popolo.bg hit by ransomware?

popolo.bg was listed by the Ransomedvc ransomware operation (Bulgaria), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Ransomedvc ransomware group?

Ransomedvc is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the popolo.bg breach?

Ransomedvc published data attributed to popolo.bg. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Popolo

listed as popolo.bg · Claimed by Ransomedvc · listed 3 years ago

$15.000

Ransom

demanded

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 26, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomedvc
Status: Data leaked
Country: Bulgaria
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2023
Ransom demanded: $15.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Popolo (popolo.bg) is a Bulgarian-registered website currently undergoing technical maintenance related to the country's currency transition from Bulgarian lev to euro. Based on the domain and sector classification, the company appears to operate an online retail or technology platform in Bulgaria. No further operational details are available from the public site at this time.

Industry: E-commerce / Online Retail

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The group claims exfiltration and has published the disclosure, but no proof files, data volume, or specific sensitive data categories (PII, financial, medical) are evidenced in the post. The relatively low ransom and absence of proof material limit severity to medium.

RansomedVC claims to have exfiltrated data from popolo.bg and threatens to publish all stolen information unless a ransom of $15,000 is paid. The post does not specify encryption of systems, focusing solely on data exfiltration as leverage.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unspecified 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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Disclosure context

About Ransomedvc

Ransomedvc is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, representing one of the newer entrants in the ransomware ecosystem with a documented victim count of 68 organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, specific details about their country of origin and operational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent group rather than a established RaaS operation. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting critical infrastructure sectors, particularly focusing on Food & Agriculture and Healthcare organizations across a geographically diverse range of countries including Bulgaria, Brazil, Japan, Australia, and Russia, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of automated scanning tools to identify vulnerable systems. While comprehensive details about their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, their targeting of healthcare and food sector organizations suggests they may leverage the critical nature of these services to pressure victims into payment. The group's notable campaign activity appears concentrated in their operational period since mid-2023, though no major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or other authoritative sources. Ransomedvc appears to remain active as of the latest available intelligence, though their relatively recent emergence means their long-term operational patterns and potential for rebranding or law enforcement disruption remain to be observed. 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 Ransomedvcon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $15.000

Other recent disclosures by Ransomedvc

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

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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, popolo.bg is reported in Bulgaria, a country with 23 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomedvc means popolo.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 Ransomedvc'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.