Disclosure context

About Redalert

Redalert is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in July 2022 with primarily financial motivations, operating on a smaller scale compared to major ransomware families. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available from major security organizations regarding their operational structure or whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on available data, Redalert has demonstrated a geographic focus on Western European targets, particularly concentrating their operations against entities in the United Kingdom and France, though their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public security research. With only six known victims since their emergence, the group represents a minor player in the ransomware ecosystem, and their limited operational footprint suggests they may lack the sophistication and resources of more prominent ransomware operations. Current intelligence indicates minimal ongoing activity from this group, though definitive information about their operational status, potential disruption, or dissolution is not available in public reporting from major cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 6 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 14, 2022; most recent post September 22, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Red Alert.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 15, 2022vahanen.com listed by Redalerton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consulting sector. Geographically, vahanen.com is reported in Finland.

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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Vahanen (now part of AFRY)

listed as vahanen.com · Claimed by Redalert · listed 4 years ago

46m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jul 15, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Redalert
Status: Data leaked
Country: Finland
Sector: Consulting
Listed on leak site: Jul 15, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vahanen was a Finnish engineering and technical consulting firm whose website (vahanen.com) has been replaced by AFRY, a large multinational engineering, design, and advisory company. Vahanen operated across sectors including infrastructure, buildings, and environment in Finland. The domain now redirects to AFRY's Finnish portal, indicating Vahanen was absorbed into or rebranded under AFRY.

Industry: Engineering & Technical Consulting

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published by the group, which implies exfiltration occurred, but no details about data type, volume, or sensitivity are available from the captured post. The victim is an engineering consultancy, which could hold sensitive infrastructure-related project data, warranting at least medium severity.

The Redalert ransomware group claimed an attack on vahanen.com and the disclosure status is marked as data_published; however, no leak post content was captured and no specific claims about encryption, exfiltration, or data categories are available from the provided information.

medium

Sources

Victim sitevahanen.com

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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