Disclosure context

About Avoslocker

**Overview**: AvosLocker is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating as both a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform and conducting direct attacks against organizations worldwide. The group has demonstrated sophisticated capabilities and has targeted over 70 victims across multiple critical sectors. **Origin & Affiliation**: While the exact country of origin remains unclear, AvosLocker operates as a RaaS model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks using their ransomware payload and infrastructure. The group has shown no clear ties to state-sponsored activities, appearing to be purely profit-driven cybercriminals. **Attack Methodology**: AvosLocker typically gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, VPN vulnerabilities, and phishing campaigns, subsequently deploying tools like Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and persistence. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting systems and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. Their ransomware uses strong encryption algorithms and includes capabilities to terminate security processes and delete shadow copies to prevent recovery. **Notable Campaigns**: The group has particularly targeted critical infrastructure sectors including education, manufacturing, finance, healthcare, and transportation, with significant attacks reported against organizations in the United States, Germany, Singapore, Canada, and France. CISA and FBI have issued joint advisories warning about AvosLocker's targeting of critical infrastructure, highlighting the group's impact on essential services. **Current Status**: As of recent threat intelligence reporting, AvosLocker remains active, continuing to recruit affiliates and conduct ransomware operations against organizations globally. The group has been linked to 70 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 13, 2021; most recent post February 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Avos.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 26, 2022Keyano College listed by Avoslockeron the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Keyano College is reported in Canada, a country with 810 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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Keyano College

Claimed by Avoslocker · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 26, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Avoslocker
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Dec 26, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Keyano College is a community college founded in 1965 and headquartered in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. It serves both the general community and industry partners by providing training and skills acquisition programs. The college is a key educational institution in the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta.

Industry: Post-Secondary & Community College Education
Address: 8115 Franklin Ave, Fort McMurray, Alberta, T9H 2H7, Canada
Founded: 1965

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is confirmed published by the ransomware group against an educational institution, which likely holds regulated PII including student records, employee data, and potentially financial information at scale, consistent with high-severity exfiltration.

AvosLocker claims to have compromised Keyano College and the disclosure status indicates data has been published, suggesting exfiltration of college data. No specific ransom amount or data size was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

College administrative records
Student personal information
Staff/employee records
Financial documents
Training and skills program data

What the group claims

Founded in 1965 and based in Fort McMurray, Canada, Keyano College is a community college meeting both the training and skills acquisition needs of industry. Headquarters: 8115 Franklin Ave, Fort McMurray, Alberta, T9H 2H7, Canada Phone Number: (780) 791-4800

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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