Disclosure context

About Vicesociety

Vicesociety is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through targeting critical infrastructure and public service organizations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undetermined by public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established RaaS model. Vicesociety primarily gains initial access through exploitation of public-facing applications and credential-based attacks, with documented cases showing they particularly focus on compromising remote access services and vulnerable web applications before deploying their ransomware payload across victim networks. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting educational institutions, government agencies, and healthcare organizations, with their 188 documented victims concentrated heavily in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Spain, indicating a focus on English-speaking and Western European entities. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively detailed in major public threat intelligence reports from CISA or FBI advisories, the group's consistent targeting of critical sectors like education and healthcare has drawn attention from security researchers monitoring threats to essential services. Vicesociety remains active as of recent threat intelligence assessments, continuing their operations against similar target sectors with no documented law enforcement disruption or significant operational changes. The group has been linked to 188 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 31, 2021; most recent post December 14, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 15, 2023CommScope listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunications sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, CommScope 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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CommScope

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

37m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 15, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Telecommunications
Listed on leak site: Apr 15, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CommScope Holding Company is a global provider of infrastructure solutions for communications networks, headquartered in Hickory, North Carolina. The company designs, manufactures, installs, and supports hardware infrastructure and software intelligence for wired and wireless networks. It serves customers worldwide across data centers, enterprise, broadband, and carrier network segments.

Industry: Network Infrastructure & Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing
Address: 1100 CommScope Place SE, Hickory, NC 28602, United States
Employees: 10000+
Founded: 1976

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the ransomware group against a major global telecommunications infrastructure manufacturer, indicating exfiltration of potentially significant business and employee data. CommScope's role in critical communications infrastructure elevates the severity, though the exact nature and scale of the published data is not fully detailed in the post.

Vice Society claims to have exfiltrated data from CommScope and has published the data on their leak site. The disclosed status indicates data has been published, though the specific volume and ransom demand were not stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Network infrastructure design documents
Employee personally identifiable information (PII)
Internal business records
Proprietary engineering/technical data
Financial records

What the group claims

Founded in 1976, CommScope Holding provides infrastructure solutions for communications networks worldwide. We design, manufacture, install and support the hardware infrastructure and software intelligence that enable our digital society to interact and thrive.

Sources

Victim sitecommscope.com
Leak posthttp://xu66gzit6zp22qvixpenlxu2ok7vzrpqvgkuupkiukpz47va47ewbwad.onion/JhykowedsgX/DasQer3w5TCxd4/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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