Disclosure context

About Vicesociety

Vicesociety is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through targeting critical infrastructure and public service organizations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undetermined by public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established RaaS model. Vicesociety primarily gains initial access through exploitation of public-facing applications and credential-based attacks, with documented cases showing they particularly focus on compromising remote access services and vulnerable web applications before deploying their ransomware payload across victim networks. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting educational institutions, government agencies, and healthcare organizations, with their 188 documented victims concentrated heavily in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Spain, indicating a focus on English-speaking and Western European entities. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively detailed in major public threat intelligence reports from CISA or FBI advisories, the group's consistent targeting of critical sectors like education and healthcare has drawn attention from security researchers monitoring threats to essential services. Vicesociety remains active as of recent threat intelligence assessments, continuing their operations against similar target sectors with no documented law enforcement disruption or significant operational changes. The group has been linked to 188 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 31, 2021; most recent post December 14, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 22, 2023Neptune Lines listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation & Logistics sector. Geographically, Neptune Lines is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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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Neptune Lines

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

37m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 22, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site: Apr 22, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Neptune Lines is a car carrier shipping company operating Roll-on/Roll-off (RoRo) vessels, specializing in the transportation of vehicles and rolling cargo. The company positions itself as a flexible, client-focused carrier offering tailor-made logistics solutions. It is headquartered in Greece and operates routes primarily in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, though it is listed under a US country entry in this dataset.

Industry: Automotive Roll-on/Roll-off (RoRo) Shipping & Car Carrying
Employees: 201-500

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published (disclosed status: data_published) by Vice Society, indicating successful exfiltration of business data from a maritime logistics operator; potential exposure of employee PII, client contracts, and operational data elevates severity to high.

Vice Society claims to have exfiltrated data from Neptune Lines and has published the data, indicating confirmed exfiltration. No ransom amount was stated, and the specific data categories have not been detailed in the truncated post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate documents
Employee records
Client/partner data
Internal communications
Financial records

What the group claims

It is Neptune Lines' mission to be the most trusted car carrier company in the areas we operate, always delivering flexible and tailor-made solutions to our client-partners by investing in our most valuable asset, our people.

Sources

Victim siteneptunelines.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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