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vasexperts.ru

Claimed by Werewolves · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 23, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Werewolves
Status
Data leaked
Country
Russia
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Dec 23, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

VAS Experts is a Russian software developer specializing in traffic control and analysis solutions for telecom operators. Founded in 2013, the company has deployed over 1,500 installations across the CIS and internationally, and develops a proprietary DPI engine recognized as one of the world's top 10.

Industry
Telecommunications Software & Network Infrastructure
Founded
2013

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 250 TB of proprietary software source code, DPI technology, and trade secrets from a major telecom infrastructure vendor serving critical communications networks across CIS regions. The data includes the company's core IP and technology underpinning services to numerous operators.

The Werewolves group claims to have exfiltrated VAS Experts' entire data repository, comprising 250 TB of source code, proprietary software development, partner software distributions, and internal documentation. The group states the breach is 'fatal' to multiple business aspects and demands $640,000 for non-disclosure.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • proprietary source code
  • software development repository
  • DPI engine code
  • partner software distributions
  • internal documentation
  • technical specifications
  • software builds and installers

What the group claims

Компания VAS Experts — разработчик программного обеспечения для контроля и анализа трафика. Компания присутствует на IT-рынке с 2013 года. За время ее существования было произведено более 1500 инсталляций в СНГ и за рубежом.За время работы у компании сформирован достаточно объемный репозитарий,содержащий как уникальные разработки компании,так и дистрибутивы,исходные коды программного обеспечения партнеров компании.Наша организация с пониманием относится к ценности подобных массивов данных,однако халатное отношение к хранению и обработке,привело к утечке.Критическая оценка скомпрометированных данных позволяет нам оценивать инцедент как фатальный для многих аспектов деятельности компании.Объем массива 250 тб.Стоимость не разглашения 640000$.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About werewolves

The Werewolves ransomware group is a relatively new financially-motivated cybercriminal organization that emerged in December 2023, with limited public documentation available from major threat intelligence sources. Based on available targeting data, the group appears to operate with a focus on business services and manufacturing sectors, having compromised 26 known victims across multiple countries including Russia, the United States, Netherlands, Germany, and France. The group's targeting pattern suggests they may employ opportunistic attack vectors rather than highly sophisticated initial access methods, though specific technical details about their encryption methods, data exfiltration practices, or operational structure remain undocumented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small victim count, there are no publicly reported high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against them. The current operational status of Werewolves remains unclear given the limited threat intelligence reporting available from established cybersecurity firms and government agencies. The group has been linked to 26 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 20, 2023; most recent post March 13, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 23, 2023vasexperts.ru listed by werewolveson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by werewolves

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, vasexperts.ru is reported in Russia, a country with 63 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by werewolves means vasexperts.ru 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 werewolves'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.