Disclosure context

About Avoslocker

**Overview**: AvosLocker is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating as both a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform and conducting direct attacks against organizations worldwide. The group has demonstrated sophisticated capabilities and has targeted over 70 victims across multiple critical sectors. **Origin & Affiliation**: While the exact country of origin remains unclear, AvosLocker operates as a RaaS model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks using their ransomware payload and infrastructure. The group has shown no clear ties to state-sponsored activities, appearing to be purely profit-driven cybercriminals. **Attack Methodology**: AvosLocker typically gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, VPN vulnerabilities, and phishing campaigns, subsequently deploying tools like Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and persistence. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting systems and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. Their ransomware uses strong encryption algorithms and includes capabilities to terminate security processes and delete shadow copies to prevent recovery. **Notable Campaigns**: The group has particularly targeted critical infrastructure sectors including education, manufacturing, finance, healthcare, and transportation, with significant attacks reported against organizations in the United States, Germany, Singapore, Canada, and France. CISA and FBI have issued joint advisories warning about AvosLocker's targeting of critical infrastructure, highlighting the group's impact on essential services. **Current Status**: As of recent threat intelligence reporting, AvosLocker remains active, continuing to recruit affiliates and conduct ransomware operations against organizations globally. The group has been linked to 70 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 13, 2021; most recent post February 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Avos.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 11, 2023Schandy listed by Avoslockeron the group's public leak site

Data size: 100 GB

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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Schandy

Claimed by Avoslocker · listed 3 years ago

100 GB

Data size

39m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 11, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Avoslocker
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Feb 11, 2023
Data size: 100 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Schandy appears to be a business services company. No public website content was available to confirm its specific activities, geographic location, or scale. The name and sector classification suggest a professional or commercial services operation.

Industry: Business Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of 100 GB of data including passports and HR records constitutes sensitive PII (identity documents) at meaningful scale, warranting high severity; insufficient evidence of regulated medical or government data to elevate to critical.

AvosLocker claims to have exfiltrated over 100 GB of data including employee records, CVs, passports, HR files, and confidential documents. The disclosed status indicates the data has been published.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee records
CVs / resumes
Passports
HR files
Confidential documents

What the group claims

We have more than 100GB Data(Employers Data,CVs,Passports,HR,Confidential files...)

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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