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Wideband Satellite Communications Operations and Technical Support

listed as wsots.net · Claimed by Abyss · listed 3 years ago

38m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 15, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Abyss
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Telecommunications
Listed on leak site
May 15, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Wideband Satellite Communications Operations and Technical Support (WSOTS) is a US-based organization operating in the satellite communications sector, accessible via wsots.net. The organization appears to provide operational and technical support services related to wideband satellite communications. No further public details about scale or headquarters are available.

Industry
Satellite Communications & Technical Support

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim operates in satellite communications, a sector with national security and critical infrastructure implications. Compromise and exfiltration of 17 VMs from such an organization suggests significant operational and potentially sensitive data exposure, warranting a high severity rating. Escalation to critical is not confirmed without evidence of regulated PII or classified data.

The Abyss ransomware group claims to have compromised 17 virtual machines (VMs) belonging to wsots.net, with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • 17 virtual machine images/data
  • Potentially hosted operational data
  • Potentially hosted technical support data

What the group claims

17 VM from wsots.net (Wideband Satellite Communications Operations and Technical Support)

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Abyss

Abyss is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on English-speaking countries. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Their attack methodology and specific tools have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their victim profile of 87 organizations indicates they employ effective initial access techniques to compromise business services, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. The group demonstrates a clear geographic preference for targets in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, suggesting either language preferences or specific regional access capabilities. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively limited public documentation from established security researchers, detailed information about notable campaigns, encryption methods, or law enforcement actions remains scarce. Abyss appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the lack of extensive public analysis by major threat intelligence organizations suggests they may operate at a smaller scale compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group has been linked to 103 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2023; most recent post June 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 15, 2023wsots.net listed by Abysson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Abyss

Abyss has been linked to 103 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunications sector, which has 87 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, wsots.net is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Abyss means wsots.net 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Abyss'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.