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Proxy-Sale

listed as proxy-sale.com · Claimed by Ransomed · listed 3 years ago

$12.000
Ransom
demanded
34m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 9, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Russia
Listed on leak site
Sep 9, 2023
Ransom demanded
$12.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Proxy-Sale (proxy-sale.com) is an online marketplace for purchasing private dedicated proxy servers, offering IPv4, IPv6, ISP, mobile, and residential proxy types across 200+ countries. The platform serves use cases including social media automation, online gaming, web scraping, and general browsing. Pricing starts from $0.07 per unit and the site is available in English and Russian.

Industry
Proxy Server & IP Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims full database exfiltration combined with deliberate destruction of backups, and the data has been published. Customer records from a proxy service likely contain PII, payment data, and account credentials at scale, representing significant business and user data exposure.

The Ransomed group claims to have gained access to all critical infrastructure of the operator (referenced as 'linktera'), exfiltrated the database, and deleted all server backups, demanding a ransom of $12,000. The status is listed as data_published, indicating stolen data has been or is being disclosed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer database
  • Server backups
  • Critical infrastructure data

What the group claims

We have been able to access all of linktera critical infrastructure including the database, we dumped and then deleted all backups from the serversWe require a ransom of $12,000

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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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

  • September 9, 2023proxy-sale.com listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site
Ransom demanded
$12.000

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, proxy-sale.com is reported in Russia, a country with 63 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means proxy-sale.com 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 ransomed'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.