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Lava International Limited

listed as LAVA · Claimed by Snatch · listed 5 years ago

55m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 26, 2021
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Snatch
Status
Data leaked
Country
India
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Dec 26, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lava International Limited is a leading mobile handset company headquartered in India that designs and manufactures mobile phones. The company has expanded its operations to multiple countries across the world. Since its inception, Lava has focused on building a strong ecosystem for mobile handset design and manufacturing.

Industry
Mobile Handset Design & Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published ('data_published' status) by the Snatch group against a large multinational mobile handset manufacturer, indicating confirmed exfiltration of significant business data; the scale of operations across multiple countries suggests material corporate data is at risk.

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have attacked Lava International Limited and has published data as part of a disclosed leak, though the specific nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and the volume of data are not explicitly stated in the truncated post.

high

What the group claims

Lava International Limited is a leading Mobile Handset Company in India and has expanded its operations to multiple countries across the world. Right from its inception Lava has been at the forefront of building a strong ecosystem of design and manufacturing of mobile handsets. The

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 26, 2021LAVA listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,684 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, LAVA is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means LAVA 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Snatch'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.