Disclosure context

About Ransomedvc

Ransomedvc is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, representing one of the newer entrants in the ransomware ecosystem with a documented victim count of 68 organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, specific details about their country of origin and operational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent group rather than a established RaaS operation. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting critical infrastructure sectors, particularly focusing on Food & Agriculture and Healthcare organizations across a geographically diverse range of countries including Bulgaria, Brazil, Japan, Australia, and Russia, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of automated scanning tools to identify vulnerable systems. While comprehensive details about their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, their targeting of healthcare and food sector organizations suggests they may leverage the critical nature of these services to pressure victims into payment. The group's notable campaign activity appears concentrated in their operational period since mid-2023, though no major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or other authoritative sources. Ransomedvc appears to remain active as of the latest available intelligence, though their relatively recent emergence means their long-term operational patterns and potential for rebranding or law enforcement disruption remain to be observed. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post June 7, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 13, 2023NEW TWITTER listed by Ransomedvcon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Media & Entertainment sector. Geographically, NEW TWITTER is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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X Corp. (Twitter)

listed as NEW TWITTER · Claimed by Ransomedvc · listed 3 years ago

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 13, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Ransomedvc
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Media & Entertainment
Listed on leak site: Oct 13, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

X Corp. (formerly Twitter, Inc.) operates the social media platform twitter.com / x.com, a global microblogging and social networking service headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform enables users to post short-form content, interact with other users, and consume news and media at scale. Following its acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022, Twitter Inc. was rebranded to X Corp.

Industry: Social Media & Microblogging
Address: 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
Employees: 1500
Founded: 2006

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains no verifiable proof, no described data inventory, no ransom figure, and no stated operational impact. The disclosure amounts to a bare claim with no supporting evidence published.

RansomedVC claims to have attacked 'New Twitter' (twitter.com / X Corp.), with the disclosure status marked as data_published; however, the leak post itself contains no substantive content beyond a social-media embed, and no specific data exfiltration details, ransom demand, or data volume are stated.

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What the group claims

Tweets by RansomedSupport

Sources

Victim sitetwitter.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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