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Агенција за електронски комуникации (Agency for Electronic Communications)

listed as aek.mk · Claimed by Lv · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 20, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lv
Status
Data leaked
Country
North Macedonia
Sector
Telecommunications
Listed on leak site
Dec 20, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AEK is North Macedonia's national regulatory authority for electronic communications. It oversees market competition, licensing, spectrum allocation, network security, and consumer protection in the telecommunications sector. The agency operates under government mandate to regulate the country's electronic communications market.

Industry
Government & Regulatory—Telecommunications
Address
Skopje, North Macedonia

Attack summary

Severity: high — Government telecommunications regulator compromise; potential exposure of critical infrastructure oversight data, licensing records, and regulatory intelligence. Operational risk to national electronic communications sector.

The Lv group claims to have compromised AEK's systems. The leak post reproduces the agency's own regulatory mission statement, suggesting data exfiltration of government/regulatory records. No specific data categories or proof files are detailed in the truncated post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • regulatory documents
  • licensing records
  • spectrum allocation files
  • market analysis reports
  • internal communications
  • government/administrative records

What the group claims

We create favourable conditions for the effective and sustainable competition on the electronic communications market to serve the interests of the users, business society and communications industry, through effective, transparent, proportionate and proactive application of the regulatory tools.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Lv

Lv is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with relatively low visibility compared to major ransomware families but maintaining consistent activity across multiple regions and sectors. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding Lv's specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their successful compromise of 115 documented victims across diverse sectors indicates they employ conventional ransomware deployment techniques. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and business services, with notable geographic focus on Russia, France, Malaysia, the United States, and the Netherlands, spanning sectors including energy, telecommunications, business services, media, and non-profit organizations. Current intelligence suggests Lv remains active as of recent reporting, though the group maintains a lower profile than prominent ransomware families and has not been subject to major law enforcement disruption operations. The group has been linked to 115 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 22, 2021; most recent post March 13, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 20, 2023aek.mk listed by Lvon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Lv

Lv has been linked to 115 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Lv dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunications sector, which has 87 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, aek.mk is reported in North Macedonia.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lv means aek.mk 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 Lv'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.