Disclosure context

About Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including healthcare, non-profit, education, finance, and energy. The group has claimed at least 36 victims since its emergence, with attacks predominantly focused on the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and the Philippines. While detailed technical analysis of Nokoyawa's operations remains limited in public reporting, the group appears to follow conventional ransomware tactics targeting critical infrastructure and essential services sectors. Their targeting of healthcare and educational institutions suggests they operate without the sector restrictions that some other ransomware groups have adopted. Notable campaigns include attacks across their preferred geographic regions, though specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security firms. As of current reporting, Nokoyawa appears to remain an active threat, though the group's relatively recent emergence means long-term operational patterns and potential law enforcement disruption efforts are still developing. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 9, 2022; most recent post August 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 23, 2023comcom-sgc listed by Nokoyawaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 509 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, comcom-sgc is reported in France, a country with 472 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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Communauté de communes Seille et Grand Couronné

listed as comcom-sgc · Claimed by Nokoyawa · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 23, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Nokoyawa
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: May 23, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Communauté de communes Seille et Grand Couronné is a French intermunicipal authority (communauté de communes) located in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est region. It was originally created in 2003 and expanded on 1 January 2017 by merging with the neighbouring Community of Municipalities of Seille et Mauchère, now grouping 42 communes. It delivers public services covering waste management, water and sanitation, early childhood, housing, culture, and local economic development.

Industry: Local Government / Intermunicipal Administration
Address: Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est region, France
Founded: 2003

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor against a local government body, which typically holds PII of residents, employee records, and sensitive administrative documents. The confirmed data_published status elevates severity beyond encryption-only, and government entities handling citizen data represent significant public interest risk.

The Nokoyawa ransomware group claims to have attacked the Communauté de communes Seille et Grand Couronné and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of files from this local government entity; no ransom amount or data volume was specified in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government administrative documents
Municipal deliberations and council records
Resident personal data
Employee/agent records
Public procurement files
Financial/budget documents

What the group claims

The community of communes of Grand Couronné is a former French community of communes, located in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle in the Grand Est region. Created in 2003 this one merged on January 1, 2017 with the Community of Municipalities of Seille et Mauchère, its neighbor to form the...

Sources

Victim sitecomcom-sgc.fr/
Leak posthttp://nokoleakb76znymx443veg4n6fytx6spck6pc7nkr4dvfuygpub6jsid.onion/leak/6432a878f42d1510e280de7d

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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