Disclosure context

About Freecivilian

Freecivilian is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in December 2022 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 14 documented victims. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely unknown, with limited public documentation from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their operational structure or whether they operate as an independent entity or through a ransomware-as-a-service model. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports, though their targeting pattern shows a notable focus on healthcare sector organizations. Given the limited public reporting on this group from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms, specific details about notable campaigns, record ransom demands, or high-profile incidents remain undocumented in mainstream threat intelligence channels. The current operational status of Freecivilian is unclear due to the sparse public information available about this relatively low-profile ransomware operation. The group has been linked to 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 31, 2022; most recent post June 1, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 31, 2022kyivcity.com listed by Freecivilianon 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, kyivcity.com is reported in Ukraine.

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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Kyiv City State Administration

listed as kyivcity.com · Claimed by Freecivilian · listed 3 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 31, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Freecivilian
Status: Data leaked
Country: Ukraine
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Dec 31, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

kyivcity.com is associated with the Kyiv City State Administration, the executive body governing the city of Kyiv, Ukraine. It oversees municipal services, urban planning, public infrastructure, and local government functions for one of Eastern Europe's largest capital cities. The domain serves as an official or quasi-official web presence for city government information and services.

Industry: Municipal Government Administration
Address: Хрещатик вул., 36, Київ, Ukraine, 01044

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The target is a national capital city government administration during an active wartime conflict; exfiltration of government data from Kyiv municipal systems represents a critical exposure of public-sector records that may include citizen PII, sensitive administrative and infrastructure data, and operationally sensitive government information.

The Freecivilian ransomware group claims to have attacked kyivcity.com and has published data ('data_published' status), suggesting exfiltration of government records; no ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the available post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Municipal government records
City administration documents
Potentially citizen-related data
Internal administrative communications

Sources

Victim sitekyivcity.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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