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Agencija za elektronski komunikacii (Agency for Electronic Communications)

listed as aek.mk · Claimed by Werewolves · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 20, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Werewolves
Status
Data leaked
Country
North Macedonia
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Dec 20, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AEK is North Macedonia's national regulatory authority for electronic communications. It oversees the telecommunications market, manages spectrum allocation, licenses operators, regulates pricing, ensures network security and integrity, and serves the interests of users, businesses, and the communications industry.

Industry
Government - Telecommunications Regulator
Address
Skopje, North Macedonia

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data publication from a critical government telecommunications regulator. Exposure of regulatory, licensing, and market intelligence data affecting national communications infrastructure constitutes significant impact, even without confirmed exfiltration details.

The werewolves group claims to have compromised AEK and published data. No specific operational details of the attack method (encryption, exfiltration, or both) are stated in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • government regulatory documents
  • telecommunications licensing records
  • market analysis data
  • spectrum allocation records
  • pricing regulation files
  • internal organizational documents

What the group claims

We create favourable conditions for the effective and sustainable competition on the electronic communications market to serve the interests of the users, business society and communications industry, through effective, transparent, proportionate and proactive application of the regulatory tools.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About werewolves

The Werewolves ransomware group is a relatively new financially-motivated cybercriminal organization that emerged in December 2023, with limited public documentation available from major threat intelligence sources. Based on available targeting data, the group appears to operate with a focus on business services and manufacturing sectors, having compromised 26 known victims across multiple countries including Russia, the United States, Netherlands, Germany, and France. The group's targeting pattern suggests they may employ opportunistic attack vectors rather than highly sophisticated initial access methods, though specific technical details about their encryption methods, data exfiltration practices, or operational structure remain undocumented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small victim count, there are no publicly reported high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against them. The current operational status of Werewolves remains unclear given the limited threat intelligence reporting available from established cybersecurity firms and government agencies. The group has been linked to 26 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 20, 2023; most recent post March 13, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 20, 2023aek.mk listed by werewolveson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by werewolves

werewolves has been linked to 26 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full werewolves dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, aek.mk is reported in North Macedonia.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by werewolves means aek.mk 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 werewolves'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.