Disclosure context

About Avoslocker

**Overview**: AvosLocker is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating as both a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform and conducting direct attacks against organizations worldwide. The group has demonstrated sophisticated capabilities and has targeted over 70 victims across multiple critical sectors. **Origin & Affiliation**: While the exact country of origin remains unclear, AvosLocker operates as a RaaS model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks using their ransomware payload and infrastructure. The group has shown no clear ties to state-sponsored activities, appearing to be purely profit-driven cybercriminals. **Attack Methodology**: AvosLocker typically gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, VPN vulnerabilities, and phishing campaigns, subsequently deploying tools like Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and persistence. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting systems and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. Their ransomware uses strong encryption algorithms and includes capabilities to terminate security processes and delete shadow copies to prevent recovery. **Notable Campaigns**: The group has particularly targeted critical infrastructure sectors including education, manufacturing, finance, healthcare, and transportation, with significant attacks reported against organizations in the United States, Germany, Singapore, Canada, and France. CISA and FBI have issued joint advisories warning about AvosLocker's targeting of critical infrastructure, highlighting the group's impact on essential services. **Current Status**: As of recent threat intelligence reporting, AvosLocker remains active, continuing to recruit affiliates and conduct ransomware operations against organizations globally. The group has been linked to 70 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 13, 2021; most recent post February 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Avos.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 26, 2022LW Group listed by Avoslockeron the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Automotive sector, which has 11 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, LW Group is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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LW Group

Claimed by Avoslocker · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 26, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Avoslocker
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Automotive
Listed on leak site: Dec 26, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

LW Group is a luxury automobile dealership group representing eight luxury automobile brands across nine locations in the Boston, Massachusetts and New Hampshire markets. The group operates as a multi-brand automotive retail organization in the northeastern United States. No additional details about scale or founding are available from the leak post or public site.

Industry: Luxury Automobile Dealership Group
Address: Boston, MA and New Hampshire markets, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the ransomware group (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration of business data from a multi-location automotive dealership group, which likely includes customer PII, financial records, and operational data across nine locations.

AvosLocker claims an attack against LW Group with a disclosed status of data_published, indicating exfiltration and/or encryption of company data; however, the leak post excerpt does not explicitly specify the nature or volume of data stolen beyond identifying the victim.

high

What the group claims

LW Group now represents eight (8) luxury automobile brands operating at nine (9) locations within the Boston, MA and New Hampshire markets.

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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