Was Avant Grup hit by ransomware?

Avant Grup was listed by the Snatch ransomware operation (Spain), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Snatch ransomware group?

Snatch is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Avant Grup breach?

Snatch published data attributed to Avant Grup. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Avant Grup

Claimed by Snatch · listed 3 years ago

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 5, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Snatch
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site: Jun 5, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Avant Grup is a Spanish passenger transport company based in Barcelona with over 50 years of experience providing coach and mobility services. The company operates across multiple cities in Spain, serving tourism, congresses, cruise port operations (Barcelona, Tarragona, Palamós), school transport, private transfers, and adapted transport. It holds ISO certifications and Biosphere/Responsible Tourism commitments.

Industry: Passenger Coach & Mobility Services
Address: Barcelona, Spain (with operational bases across Spain; phone: +34 93 652 84 88)

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor, confirming exfiltration. The company handles passenger transport including school transport and cruise operations, and likely holds PII for clients, employees, and suppliers. Published data elevates this beyond medium despite no explicit volume figure.

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have attacked Avant Grup and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data; no ransom amount or specific data volume has been stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Operational/logistics data
Client reservation records
Corporate documents
Employee/HR data (inferred)
Supplier information (inferred from 'Área Proveedor')

What the group claims

Avant Grup, has a wide network of operational bases distributed in different cities in order to cover the demand in mobility services that be generated. This extensive offer of service coverage provides our clients with a global solution throughout the national territory. Our centralized reservation

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 5, 2023Avant Grup listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation & Logistics sector, which has 180 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Avant Grup is reported in Spain, a country with 351 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means Avant Grup 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, INCIBE-CERT (Spain), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Snatch'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.