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

December 26, 2022Garnica Plywood listed by Avoslockeron the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Garnica Plywood is reported in Spain, a country with 212 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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Garnica Plywood

Claimed by Avoslocker · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 26, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Avoslocker
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Dec 26, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Garnica Plywood is a Spanish manufacturer specialising in plywood products made from plantation species. The company serves multiple sectors including construction, mobility, furniture, and DIY markets. It is recognised for its commitment to quality in the plywood production process.

Industry: Plywood & Wood Panel Manufacturing
Employees: 501-1000

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Exfiltration is claimed and a sample has been published (data_published status), but the disclosed data inventory is limited to contact information with no confirmed PII at scale, financial, medical, or regulated data evident from the post.

AvosLocker claims to have exfiltrated data from Garnica Plywood and threatened to publish all data by September 1; a sample including contact information was advertised as proof of access.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Contact information
Corporate data (unspecified)

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

WILL LEAK ALL DATA SEPTEMBER 1, SAMPLE INCLUDE CONTACT At Garnica, we offer a wide range of plantation species; we boast different kinds of wood for construction, mobility, furniture, DIY projects and much more. Discover them here. Architecture and materials 21-07-2022 How is plywood manufactured step by step Our commitment to excellence in the plywood production process is reflected in each step.

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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