Disclosure context

About NoEscape

NoEscape is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in mid-2023, rapidly establishing itself as a significant threat with 249 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origins and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. NoEscape demonstrates sophisticated attack methodologies targeting critical infrastructure and essential services, with their campaigns showing a clear preference for high-value targets in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing sectors across developed nations, particularly focusing on the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Australia. The group's rapid victim accumulation rate since their June 2023 emergence indicates an aggressive operational tempo and effective attack capabilities, though specific technical details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, NoEscape appears to remain an active threat with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities. The group has been linked to 249 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post December 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 30, 2023Verdecora listed by NoEscapeon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail & Consumer sector. Geographically, Verdecora is reported in Spain, a country with 212 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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Verdecora

Claimed by NoEscape · listed 2 years ago

30m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 30, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: NoEscape
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Retail & Consumer
Listed on leak site: Nov 30, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Verdecora is a Spanish retail chain founded in 1992 specialising in plants, garden products, pet supplies, and home decoration. The company operates physical garden centre stores across Spain and an e-commerce platform, offering products ranging from live plants and artificial grass to pet accessories and outdoor furniture. It positions itself as a lifestyle brand centred on nature, sustainability, and animal welfare.

Industry: Garden Centres & Pet Supplies Retail
Address: Spain
Founded: 1992

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely threatened), indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of internal company data; a retail company of this scale likely holds customer PII, payment-related records, and employee data.

NoEscape claims to have attacked Verdecora and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating exfiltrated data has been released. The leak post excerpt describes the company but does not detail the specific categories or volume of data stolen.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Customer records
Internal company files

What the group claims

Verdecora is an evolution, an advance, a new concept, a project in continuous growth that revolves around the plant world and the world of pets. A new concept that wants to...

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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