Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. 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 October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 20, 2023We Hire Pentesters(5BTC Payout) listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

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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We Hire Pentesters(5BTC Payout)

Claimed by ransomed · listed 3 years ago

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 20, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 20, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The leak post does not describe a legitimate victim company. The entry appears to be a recruitment advertisement by the ransomed.vc threat actor group seeking skilled penetration testers, not a disclosure of an attack against a real organisation.

Attack summary

Severity: low — No actual victim, no exfiltrated data, no operational disruption, and no proof files are present. The post is entirely a recruitment advertisement masquerading as a leak entry.

No attack is described. The post is a solicitation by ransomed.vc recruiting advanced penetration testers for a 5 BTC payout, with no victim, no exfiltration claim, and no encryption claim.

low

What the group claims

@RansomedSupport on telegram to join Ransomed.vc is in need of only advanced pentesters, our jobs are one of the highest paid you can ever find. If you have the skills, be so kind and come earn what you deserve. @RansomedSupport to join.

Sources

Victim siteransomed.vc
Leak posthttp://f6amq3izzsgtna4vw24rpyhy3ofwazlgex2zqdssavevvkklmtudxjad.onion/?p=149

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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