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

May 11, 2023DATALAN listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, DATALAN is reported in Slovakia, a country with 3 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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DATALAN

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 11, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: Slovakia
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: May 11, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

DATALAN is a Slovak technology company with more than 220 experts, operating for over 30 years. It is considered one of the top technology companies in Slovakia, with strong know-how across IT services and solutions.

Industry: IT Services & Technology Solutions
Employees: 220+

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the ransomware group against a major Slovak IT services provider with 220+ employees and 30+ years of operation. As a technology company, exfiltrated data likely includes sensitive business, client, and potentially infrastructure data, warranting a high severity rating.

Vice Society claims to have attacked DATALAN and published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data, though the specific volume and categories of exfiltrated data are not detailed in the leak post.

high

What the group claims

DATALAN is more than 220 experts who are united by strong know-how and enthusiasm for technology. We have been on the market for more than 30 years and are among the top Slovak technology companies.

Sources

Victim sitedatalan.sk/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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