Was Nuevatel hit by ransomware?

Nuevatel was listed by the Dunghill_Leak ransomware operation (Bolivia), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Dunghill_Leak ransomware group?

Dunghill_Leak is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Nuevatel breach?

Dunghill_Leak published data attributed to Nuevatel. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Nuevatel PCS de Bolivia S.A.

listed as Nuevatel · Claimed by Dunghill_Leak · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 15, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dunghill_Leak
Status: Data leaked
Country: Bolivia
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 15, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nuevatel PCS de Bolivia S.A., operating as VIVA, is a Bolivian wireless network operator and the third-largest mobile carrier in the country with a 12.9% market share. The company provides mobile services (prepaid and postpaid), internet fiber optic, and digital solutions across Bolivia.

Industry: Wireless Telecommunications
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a general description of the company and market position with no evidence of data exfiltration, proof files, operational disruption, or specific data compromise details. This appears to be a listing/announcement only.

The Dunghill_Leak group claims to have attacked VIVA. The post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or detail what specific data is at stake.

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What the group claims

Nuevatel PCS de Bolivia S.A., better known as VIVA, is a Bolivian wireless network operator and telecommunications company. It was founded in 1999. It is currently among the largest companies in the country. Viva is the third-largest wireless carrier in Bolivia, with a market share of 12.9%

Sources

Victim siteviva.com.bo

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Dunghill_Leak

Dunghill_Leak is a relatively obscure ransomware operation that emerged in April 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting small to medium-sized organizations. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited public reporting from major threat intelligence firms and law enforcement agencies. Based on their targeting patterns, the group appears to focus on opportunistic attacks against businesses in English-speaking countries, particularly the United Kingdom, Canada, and United States, as well as expanding operations into South American markets including Brazil and Bolivia, with a preference for victims in business services and technology sectors. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, Dunghill_Leak operates as a smaller-scale ransomware group compared to major threat actors, and specific details about their attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or whether they employ double extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports. The group's current operational status remains unclear, as limited public information prevents a comprehensive assessment of their ongoing activities or potential law enforcement disruption efforts. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 10, 2023; most recent post July 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 15, 2024Nuevatel listed by Dunghill_Leakon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dunghill_Leak

Dunghill_Leak has been linked to 16 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Nuevatel is reported in Bolivia, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dunghill_Leak means Nuevatel appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Monitor for the data appearing on Dunghill_Leak's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.