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

September 26, 2023gov.la listed by ransomedon 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

Government of Laos (gov.la)

listed as gov.la · Claimed by ransomed · 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: ransomed
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 top-level internet domain and hosting infrastructure for the government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. It encompasses servers and systems operated by various Laotian government ministries and agencies, storing citizen and administrative data.

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

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of regulated PII at scale from a national government, including passport data and SSNs, affecting potentially large numbers of citizens.

The group 'Ransomed' claims to have accessed the majority of Laotian government servers storing personal data including passport data, SSNs, names, and addresses, demanding $50,000 ransom; the status indicates data has been published.

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)

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

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.