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AFTA Isfahan

Claimed by Arvinclub · listed 3 years ago

35m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 3, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Arvinclub
Status
Data leaked
Country
Iran
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Aug 3, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AFTA Isfahan appears to be a regional office or entity associated with Iran's Information Technology Organization (ITO), operating under ito.gov.ir. AFTA is a Persian acronym linked to Iran's Agency for the Development of Information Technology and digital infrastructure governance. It likely serves as a provincial ICT authority or affiliated body in Isfahan, Iran.

Industry
Government – ICT & Technology Regulation

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a government-affiliated ICT regulatory entity in Iran with data_published status, indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of government data. Even without a detailed inventory, published government data typically carries high sensitivity including personnel records, infrastructure details, or administrative data.

The group Arvinclub claims to have published data belonging to AFTA Isfahan; the disclosure status is marked as data_published, indicating exfiltration and release of data, though no specific details on encryption or data contents were captured in the leak post.

high

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Arvinclub

Arvinclub is a relatively obscure ransomware operation that emerged in September 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available from major security vendors or law enforcement agencies regarding their operational structure or whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on available attack data, Arvinclub has demonstrated a diverse geographical targeting approach, with documented victims spanning Colombia, Iran, the United Kingdom, India, and Russia, suggesting either opportunistic targeting or the use of automated attack vectors rather than region-specific campaigns. The group has shown a preference for targeting manufacturing organizations, food and agriculture companies, financial institutions, and educational entities, accumulating approximately 35 known victims since their emergence. Their specific attack methodologies, including initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and data exfiltration practices, have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms. No significant high-profile campaigns, major law enforcement disruptions, or notable ransomware demands have been publicly attributed to this group by CISA, FBI, or established security research organizations. The current operational status of Arvinclub remains unclear due to limited public reporting and threat intelligence coverage of this particular ransomware variant. The group has been linked to 35 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post October 15, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Arvin Club.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 3, 2023AFTA Isfahan listed by Arvinclubon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Arvinclub

Arvinclub has been linked to 35 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Arvinclub 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, AFTA Isfahan is reported in Iran, a country with 16 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Arvinclub means AFTA Isfahan 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 Arvinclub'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.