Disclosure context

About Nefilim

Nefilim is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2020, operating as a financially motivated cybercriminal organization that has targeted at least 15 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security firms, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a confirmed Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Nefilim employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data from victims before deploying their ransomware payload, and threatens to publish exfiltrated information on leak sites if ransom demands are not met, with their attacks primarily focusing on critical manufacturing, media, transportation systems, and communications sectors. The group has demonstrated a geographic targeting preference for Germany, France, New Zealand, and Australia, suggesting either regional operational focus or specific victim selection criteria within these countries. Due to the limited public documentation from major threat intelligence providers, detailed information about specific high-profile campaigns, attack vectors, and current operational status remains sparse in open-source reporting from established security research organizations. The group has been linked to 15 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 5, 2020; most recent post September 9, 2021. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 4, 2020Orange (mobile operator) listed by Nefilimon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Communication sector, which has 24 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Orange (mobile operator) is reported in France, a country with 472 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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Orange (mobile operator)

Claimed by Nefilim · listed 6 years ago

71m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jul 4, 2020
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Nefilim
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Communication
Listed on leak site: Jul 4, 2020

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Orange S.A. is a major French multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Paris, France. It provides mobile, fixed-line, internet, and television services to consumers and businesses across France and internationally. Orange is one of the largest telecom operators in Europe and Africa, serving hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

Industry: Telecommunications & Mobile Operator
Address: 78 rue Olivier de Serres, 75015 Paris, France
Employees: 89000
Founded: 1988

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Orange is a major telecommunications operator serving millions of customers; Nefilim is known for large-scale data exfiltration and double extortion, and the disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating regulated PII and sensitive business data at scale has been released publicly.

The Nefilim ransomware group claimed an attack on Orange, with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. The group is assessed to have exfiltrated sensitive business and potentially customer data, consistent with Nefilim's known double-extortion tactics.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Employee records
Customer data
Internal communications
Financial documents

Sources

Victim siteorange.fr

Source

Indexed 6 years ago

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