Disclosure context

About Ransomedvc

Ransomedvc is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, representing one of the newer entrants in the ransomware ecosystem with a documented victim count of 68 organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, specific details about their country of origin and operational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent group rather than a established RaaS operation. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting critical infrastructure sectors, particularly focusing on Food & Agriculture and Healthcare organizations across a geographically diverse range of countries including Bulgaria, Brazil, Japan, Australia, and Russia, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of automated scanning tools to identify vulnerable systems. While comprehensive details about their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, their targeting of healthcare and food sector organizations suggests they may leverage the critical nature of these services to pressure victims into payment. The group's notable campaign activity appears concentrated in their operational period since mid-2023, though no major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or other authoritative sources. Ransomedvc appears to remain active as of the latest available intelligence, though their relatively recent emergence means their long-term operational patterns and potential for rebranding or law enforcement disruption remain to be observed. 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 June 7, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2023gov.la listed by Ransomedvcon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $50.000

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 509 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, gov.la is reported in Laos.

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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Government of Laos (gov.la)

listed as gov.la · Claimed by Ransomedvc · listed 3 years ago

$50.000

Ransom

demanded

32m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 26, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Ransomedvc
Status: Data leaked
Country: Laos
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2023
Ransom demanded: $50.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

gov.la is the official top-level domain and web infrastructure for the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. It hosts servers and digital services for multiple Laotian government ministries and agencies. The domain serves as the primary online presence for Laos's national public administration.

Industry: National Government & Public Administration
Address: Vientiane, Laos PDR

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The threat actor claims exfiltration of regulated government PII at scale — including passport data, SSNs, names, and addresses — from national government infrastructure, constituting a critical data breach affecting citizens of an entire nation.

RansomedVC claims to have accessed the majority of government servers storing personal data including passport data, SSNs, names, and addresses, demanding a $50,000 ransom. The group implies exfiltration of citizen PII at scale across multiple government systems.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Passport data
Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
Full names
Physical addresses
Personal data (unspecified additional types)

What the group claims

Did I hear gov? Yep. We have accessed the majorty of their servers that were storing personal data, Passport Data,SSNs,NAMES,ADDRESSES and a lot moreWe require a ransom of $50,000

Sources

Victim sitegov.la

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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