Disclosure context

About Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including healthcare, non-profit, education, finance, and energy. The group has claimed at least 36 victims since its emergence, with attacks predominantly focused on the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and the Philippines. While detailed technical analysis of Nokoyawa's operations remains limited in public reporting, the group appears to follow conventional ransomware tactics targeting critical infrastructure and essential services sectors. Their targeting of healthcare and educational institutions suggests they operate without the sector restrictions that some other ransomware groups have adopted. Notable campaigns include attacks across their preferred geographic regions, though specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security firms. As of current reporting, Nokoyawa appears to remain an active threat, though the group's relatively recent emergence means long-term operational patterns and potential law enforcement disruption efforts are still developing. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 9, 2022; most recent post August 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 23, 2023Rural Workforce Agency listed by Nokoyawaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Rural Workforce Agency is reported in Australia, a country with 368 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (RWAV)

listed as Rural Workforce Agency · Claimed by Nokoyawa · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 23, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Nokoyawa
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: May 23, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (RWAV) is a not-for-profit, government-funded organisation based in Victoria, Australia. It works to improve healthcare access for rural, regional, and Aboriginal communities by supporting the recruitment, retention, and placement of GPs, nurses, allied health professionals, and other clinicians. RWAV also administers grants, outreach programs, workforce data initiatives, and scholarships across Victoria.

Industry: Rural & Regional Healthcare Workforce Services
Address: Victoria, Australia

Attack summary

Severity: high — RWAV handles sensitive personal and workforce data for health professionals and Aboriginal/rural communities, including potential PII of clinicians and grant recipients. Data has been confirmed published by the group, indicating successful exfiltration of significant business and potentially regulated data from a government-funded healthcare organisation.

The Nokoyawa ransomware group claims to have attacked RWAV and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of organisational data; no ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Health professional recruitment records
GP and nurse vacancy/placement data
Grant applicant and recipient information
Workforce program participant data
Aboriginal and First Peoples community health records
Outreach service provider information
Organisational administrative documents

What the group claims

Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (RWAV) is a not-for-profit government funded organization improving health care for rural, regional and Aboriginal communities in Victoria. RWAV provides a range of activities and support to improve the recruitment and retention of health professionals...

Sources

Victim siterwav.com.au/
Leak posthttp://nokoleakb76znymx443veg4n6fytx6spck6pc7nkr4dvfuygpub6jsid.onion/leak/644a8f25f675292f2b858eb0

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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