Disclosure context

About unsafe

The "unsafe" ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through ransomware deployment and extortion schemes. Based on limited public documentation, the group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. With 14 documented victims since their emergence, the group has demonstrated a focused targeting approach, primarily concentrating their attacks on manufacturing organizations, transportation and logistics companies, and government entities across the United States, Switzerland, and France. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, limiting detailed analysis of their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group, likely due to their relatively recent emergence and smaller scale of operations compared to more established ransomware families. Current intelligence suggests the group remains active as of available reporting, though their limited public footprint makes definitive status assessment challenging without additional threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 21, 2022; most recent post January 14, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 13, 2023Invenergy listed by unsafeon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy & Utilities sector, which has 6 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Invenergy 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.

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Invenergy

Claimed by unsafe · listed 3 years ago

$10

Est. revenue

company size proxy

37m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 13, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: unsafe
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site: Apr 13, 2023
Estimated revenue: $10

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Invenergy is North America's largest privately held independent power producer and energy infrastructure innovator, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company develops, owns, and operates energy projects spanning natural gas, solar, land-based wind, energy storage, and transmission infrastructure across 4 continents, with 220 projects and 38 gigawatts of capacity. It serves utilities, commercial customers, and data centers with end-to-end energy solutions.

Industry: Independent Power Production & Renewable Energy Infrastructure
Address: 1 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606, United States
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 2004

Attack summary

Severity: high — Invenergy operates critical energy infrastructure (transmission lines, power generation) across North America; confirmed data publication by a threat actor against a major energy infrastructure company constitutes a high-severity incident given the critical infrastructure sector and likely sensitive business and operational data involved.

The group 'unsafe' claims to have compromised Invenergy and the disclosure status indicates data has been published; the leak post provides minimal detail but lists US-based revenue context, suggesting exfiltration of company data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate financial records
Business operational data
Employee information
Project and infrastructure data

What the group claims

country: US - revenue: 10

Sources

Victim siteinvenergy.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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