Disclosure context

About Arvinclub

Arvinclub is a relatively obscure ransomware operation that emerged in September 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available from major security vendors or law enforcement agencies regarding their operational structure or whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on available attack data, Arvinclub has demonstrated a diverse geographical targeting approach, with documented victims spanning Colombia, Iran, the United Kingdom, India, and Russia, suggesting either opportunistic targeting or the use of automated attack vectors rather than region-specific campaigns. The group has shown a preference for targeting manufacturing organizations, food and agriculture companies, financial institutions, and educational entities, accumulating approximately 35 known victims since their emergence. Their specific attack methodologies, including initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and data exfiltration practices, have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms. No significant high-profile campaigns, major law enforcement disruptions, or notable ransomware demands have been publicly attributed to this group by CISA, FBI, or established security research organizations. The current operational status of Arvinclub remains unclear due to limited public reporting and threat intelligence coverage of this particular ransomware variant. The group has been linked to 35 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post October 15, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Arvin Club.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 3, 2023Haraz dairy listed by Arvinclubon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Food & Agriculture sector, which has 13 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Haraz dairy is reported in Iran.

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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Haraz Dairy (Doosheh)

listed as Haraz dairy · Claimed by Arvinclub · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Aug 3, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Arvinclub
Status: Data leaked
Country: Iran
Sector: Food & Agriculture
Listed on leak site: Aug 3, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Haraz Dairy, operating under the brand Doosheh (doosheh.com), is an Iranian dairy company involved in the production and distribution of dairy products. The company operates in Iran's food and agriculture sector. No further operational details could be confirmed due to unavailable public site content.

Industry: Dairy Products & Food Processing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating some data has been released publicly, but no leak post details or data inventory are available to confirm the scale or sensitivity of the exposure, warranting a medium classification by default.

The Arvinclub ransomware group claims to have attacked Haraz Dairy and has published data, though no leak post details were captured to specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor the nature of the data compromised.

medium

Sources

Victim sitedoosheh.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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