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RE : Clarification

Claimed by Ransomed · listed 3 years ago

33m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 16, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomed
Status
Data leaked
Sector
Media & Entertainment
Listed on leak site
Oct 16, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The leak post does not describe a victim company. It appears to be an internal clarification or statement by the ransomware group 'ransomed' addressing alleged third-party involvement in editing prior posts, not an attack disclosure against a named organization.

Attack summary

Severity: low — This post contains no victim, no exfiltrated data, no encryption claim, and no operational impact. It is an internal group communication, not a ransomware disclosure.

No attack is described in this post. The content is a meta-statement by the threat actor group disavowing affiliation or operational ties with RansomedVC and clarifying authorship of previous posts.

low

What the group claims

Third-party involvement in the editing of the last 2 posts cannot be more obvious, considering the English is far more fluent than previous posts made by RansomedVC. We have no direct, or indirect affiliation(s) with RansomedVC on an operational level. They have not been compensated financially or otherwise for this. We both share the sole…

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 16, 2023RE : Clarification listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by ransomed

ransomed has been linked to 68 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full ransomed dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Media & Entertainment sector, which has 97 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means RE : Clarification 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on ransomed'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.