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Botswana Vaccine Institute

listed as bvi.co.bw · Claimed by Lockbit5 · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 20, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lockbit5
Status
Data leaked
Country
Botswana
Listed on leak site
Jun 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Botswana Vaccine Institute (BVI) is a trusted animal pharmaceutical organization based in Botswana with over 45 years of operational history. The organization specializes in vaccine development and production for veterinary/animal health purposes.

Industry
Animal Pharmaceutical & Veterinary Medicine

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration from a government/quasi-government veterinary health organization with sensitive operational and potentially regulatory data at stake. The 45+ year history suggests established infrastructure and significant data repositories.

LockBit5 claims to have attacked BVI and published exfiltrated data. The group has disclosed the breach and made data public, indicating confirmed data exfiltration rather than encryption-only.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • organizational records
  • business documents
  • operational data

What the group claims

The Botswana Vaccine Institute (BVI) is a trusted animal pharmaceutical organization with over 45 ye...

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit5

Based on the provided data, LockBit5 appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in December 2025, representing what may be a new iteration or rebrand within the LockBit ransomware ecosystem, with primary financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors. Given the LockBit naming convention and the timing of emergence, this group likely operates from Eastern Europe or Russia and may represent either a continuation of previous LockBit operations or a new affiliate group leveraging the established LockBit brand, though specific organizational details remain undocumented by major security agencies. While detailed attack methodologies have not been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's targeting pattern across 157 victims suggests a broad-spectrum approach focusing on technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation sectors primarily in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Italy, and Mexico. Due to the group's recent emergence in December 2025, there are no publicly documented notable campaigns or major incidents reported by established threat intelligence sources, though the victim count indicates active operations. The group appears to be currently active based on the recent first observation date, though comprehensive analysis from major security agencies has not yet been published given the short timeframe since emergence. The group has been linked to 311 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 7, 2025; most recent post June 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 20, 2026bvi.co.bw listed by lockbit5on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by lockbit5

lockbit5 has been linked to 311 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, bvi.co.bw is reported in Botswana, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit5 means bvi.co.bw 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 lockbit5'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.