Disclosure context

About Freecivilian

Freecivilian is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in December 2022 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 14 documented victims. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely unknown, with limited public documentation from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their operational structure or whether they operate as an independent entity or through a ransomware-as-a-service model. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports, though their targeting pattern shows a notable focus on healthcare sector organizations. Given the limited public reporting on this group from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms, specific details about notable campaigns, record ransom demands, or high-profile incidents remain undocumented in mainstream threat intelligence channels. The current operational status of Freecivilian is unclear due to the sparse public information available about this relatively low-profile ransomware operation. The group has been linked to 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 31, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 31, 2022minregion.gov.ua listed by Freecivilianon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 509 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, minregion.gov.ua is reported in Ukraine.

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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine

listed as minregion.gov.ua · Claimed by Freecivilian · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 31, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Freecivilian
Status: Data leaked
Country: Ukraine
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Dec 31, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

minregion.gov.ua is the official domain of Ukraine's Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development (formerly the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing). The ministry is a central executive body responsible for regional development policy, construction regulation, housing, urban planning, and infrastructure across Ukraine. It operates at the national level and oversees significant public administration and territorial governance functions.

Industry: Government – Regional Development & Infrastructure Ministry

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a national-level Ukrainian government ministry handling sensitive infrastructure, territorial, and administrative data. A confirmed data publication by a threat actor targeting a wartime government ministry constitutes a critical disclosure, involving potential exposure of regulated government PII, sensitive infrastructure planning data, and national security-adjacent administrative records.

The Freecivilian group claims to have published data exfiltrated from the Ukrainian ministry's systems; no ransom demand was stated and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released publicly.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government administrative records
Ministry correspondence and documents
Infrastructure and regional development data
Employee or personnel records
Internal policy and planning documents

Sources

Victim siteminregion.gov

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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