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 June 20, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 6, 2023Kventa Kft listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kventa Kft is reported in Hungary, a country with 3 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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Kventa Kft

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

39m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 6, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: Hungary
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 6, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kventa Kft. is a Hungarian IT reseller and distributor headquartered in Budaörs. The company's core business is the trade of computing devices, PC components, and computer technology accessories, and it also provides local network installation and professional IT infrastructure services. Its product catalogue spans several thousand items.

Industry: IT Products & Infrastructure Distribution
Address: Budaörs, Hungary

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by Vice Society confirming exfiltration, but no regulated or sensitive personal data at scale (e.g. medical, financial, government) is indicated; the victim is a mid-sized IT distributor with no stated sensitive data categories or operational criticality.

Vice Society claims to have attacked Kventa Kft. and has published data related to the victim, though no ransom amount or data volume was stated. The disclosure status indicates data has been published, suggesting exfiltration of company files.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
Internal files (nature unspecified)

What the group claims

Our company's main field of activity has been the trade of computing devices since the beginning. Today, our offer ranges from the installation of local networks and professional computer technology devices, through PC components to computer technology accessories, resulting in a range of several thousand products.

Sources

Victim sitekventa.hu/
Leak posthttp://xu66gzit6zp22qvixpenlxu2ok7vzrpqvgkuupkiukpz47va47ewbwad.onion/JhykowedsgX/h6rtD2wmN8lkQ1/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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