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 29, 2023Adsboll listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 415 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Adsboll is reported in Denmark, a country with 7 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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Adsboll

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 29, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: Denmark
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: May 29, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Adsboll is a national construction company based in Denmark, operating in both residential and commercial construction for private and public clients, including housing associations. The company maintains its own production capabilities in concrete, masonry, and sewer work, with regional operations centred in Kolding and the surrounding area.

Industry: Residential & Commercial Construction
Address: Kolding, Denmark

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the group, confirming exfiltration of business data from a construction firm serving both private and public clients, including housing associations; potential exposure of client PII and contract/project data elevates severity to high.

Vice Society claims to have compromised Adsboll and has published data as indicated by the 'data_published' disclosure status; the leak post does not specify whether encryption occurred, but data exfiltration is implied by the published status.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company operational data
Client records (private and public sector)
Construction project files
Financial/business documents

What the group claims

Adsboll - is a national construction company. Nationwide, we are skilled in residential and commercial construction for both private and public clients, including housing associations. We have our own production of concrete, masonry and sewer work, which we carry out regionally in Kolding and the surrounding area.

Sources

Victim siteads.dk/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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