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

January 28, 2023EGR listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunications sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, EGR is reported in Austria, a country with 24 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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EGR Telekommunikations GmbH

listed as EGR · Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

40m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 28, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: Austria
Sector: Telecommunications
Listed on leak site: Jan 28, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

EGR is an Austrian telecommunications and mobile communications product sales company with over 25 years of experience in the sector. Operating through partnerships with major carriers Magenta and Drei, the company describes itself as the most successful sales company in its sector in Austria. Its website is hosted at egr.at.

Industry: Telecommunications & Mobile Communications Retail

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the ransomware group, indicating successful exfiltration from a telecom sales company; while specific data types and volume are not detailed, confirmed data publication by Vice Society typically involves significant business and potentially customer data.

Vice Society claims to have compromised EGR and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company 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

Internal business data

What the group claims

We have specialized in the sale of telecommunications and mobile communications products for over 25 years. Through cooperation with our renowned sales partners Magenta and Drei, we have advanced to become the most successful sales company in this sector in Austria.

Sources

Victim siteegr.at/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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