Disclosure context

About la_piovra

La_piovra is an obscure ransomware operation that first emerged in June 2023, with only one documented victim to date, suggesting either a highly targeted approach or limited operational scope driven by financial motivation. The group's origin and affiliations remain unknown, with insufficient public reporting to determine their country of operation, connections to other cybercriminal organizations, or whether they operate independently or through a ransomware-as-a-service model. Due to the limited documented activity, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and whether they employ data exfiltration or multiple extortion tactics have not been publicly detailed by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. No notable campaigns or high-profile victims have been reported in public threat intelligence reporting from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers. The current operational status of la_piovra remains unclear given the sparse public documentation and minimal observed activity since their emergence. The group has been linked to 1 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 10, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 10, 2023MegaCorp One listed by la_piovraon 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, MegaCorp One is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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MegaCorp One

Claimed by la_piovra · listed 3 years ago

35m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jun 10, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: la_piovra
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jun 10, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

MegaCorp One is a technology company based in the United States. No public site content was available to provide further detail on its operations, scale, or specific products and services.

Industry: Technology

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims both encryption and exfiltration of proprietary data, and the data has a stated imminent release timeline. However, no regulated/sensitive data (PII, medical, financial) is confirmed, and no proof files have been published yet, preventing a critical rating.

The group claims to have exploited a vulnerability discovered via publicly accessible GitHub-hosted website code to encrypt the victim's files, and states it has also exfiltrated proprietary data which it threatens to release within two days if payment is not made.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Encrypted files (full filesystem or website files)
Proprietary business data (exfiltrated, unreleased)

What the group claims

In case you were wondering how we did it, your entire website code is on github!!!! A look on the code, a vuln here and there, and voila, all your files are now encrypted. We will start releasing other proprietary data that we copied. You have 2 days to pay!

Sources

Leak posthttp://h3txev6jev7rcm6p2qkxn2vctybi4dvochr3inymzgif53n2j2oqviqd.onion/2022/06/25/megacorp-one/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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