Disclosure context

About Vicesociety

Vicesociety is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through targeting critical infrastructure and public service organizations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undetermined by public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established RaaS model. Vicesociety primarily gains initial access through exploitation of public-facing applications and credential-based attacks, with documented cases showing they particularly focus on compromising remote access services and vulnerable web applications before deploying their ransomware payload across victim networks. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting educational institutions, government agencies, and healthcare organizations, with their 188 documented victims concentrated heavily in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Spain, indicating a focus on English-speaking and Western European entities. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively detailed in major public threat intelligence reports from CISA or FBI advisories, the group's consistent targeting of critical sectors like education and healthcare has drawn attention from security researchers monitoring threats to essential services. Vicesociety remains active as of recent threat intelligence assessments, continuing their operations against similar target sectors with no documented law enforcement disruption or significant operational changes. The group has been linked to 188 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 31, 2021; most recent post December 14, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 4, 2023Nerim listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunications sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Nerim 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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Nerim

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jun 4, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Telecommunications
Listed on leak site: Jun 4, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nerim is a full-service telecommunications operator based in France that has served SMBs and local government entities since 1999. The company provides broadband connectivity, enterprise telephony, server hosting, and network security services. Its customer base spans small and medium-sized businesses as well as public-sector clients.

Industry: Telecommunications & Managed IT Services
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor. Nerim serves local government entities and SMBs with hosting, telephony, and network security services, meaning exfiltrated data likely includes regulated PII, government communications, and sensitive infrastructure details at scale — consistent with a critical severity classification.

Vice Society claims to have attacked Nerim and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company and potentially client data. No ransom amount was stated and the exact volume of exfiltrated data was not specified in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business client records
Local government client data
Network infrastructure information
Hosted server data
Telephony configuration and records
Internal company documents

What the group claims

Nerim is a full service operator fulfilling the full range of communications needs of SMBs and local government since 1999. Nerim offers broadband connectivity, enterprise telephony, server hosting and network security services.

Sources

Victim sitenerim.com
Leak posthttp://tahnytazh47jpikpajm2so2jdsjrkx6gfcu4p7bu7u3vfarnpvshgeyd.onion/XgsdewokyhJ/1RB89jkoS3B6vZ/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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