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Jabatan Perancangan Bandar dan Desa Selangor (JPBD Selangor)

listed as jpbdselangor.gov.my · Claimed by Lv · listed 5 years ago

56m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 6, 2021
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lv
Status
Data leaked
Country
Malaysia
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Dec 6, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

JPBD Selangor (Jabatan Perancangan Bandar dan Desa Selangor) is the State Town and Country Planning Department of Selangor, Malaysia. It is a government agency responsible for urban and rural land-use planning, development control, and spatial planning policy across the state of Selangor. As a statutory body under the Selangor state government, it handles planning approvals, zoning, and related regulatory functions.

Industry
State Urban & Rural Planning Authority
Address
Selangor, Malaysia

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a Malaysian state government agency handling regulatory and planning data that likely includes citizen PII and sensitive administrative records. The disclosed status is 'data_published', meaning data has been actively released, elevating severity beyond medium. Lack of detail on volume prevents a 'critical' classification.

The Lv ransomware group claims to have attacked JPBD Selangor and lists the incident as data_published, indicating that data exfiltrated from the agency has been published or made available. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government planning records
  • Development application data
  • Internal administrative documents
  • Potentially citizen/applicant PII

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Lv

Lv is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with relatively low visibility compared to major ransomware families but maintaining consistent activity across multiple regions and sectors. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding Lv's specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their successful compromise of 115 documented victims across diverse sectors indicates they employ conventional ransomware deployment techniques. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and business services, with notable geographic focus on Russia, France, Malaysia, the United States, and the Netherlands, spanning sectors including energy, telecommunications, business services, media, and non-profit organizations. Current intelligence suggests Lv remains active as of recent reporting, though the group maintains a lower profile than prominent ransomware families and has not been subject to major law enforcement disruption operations. The group has been linked to 115 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 22, 2021; most recent post March 13, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 6, 2021jpbdselangor.gov.my listed by Lvon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Lv

Lv has been linked to 115 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Lv dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, jpbdselangor.gov.my is reported in Malaysia, a country with 45 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lv means jpbdselangor.gov.my 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 Lv'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.