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 June 20, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 28, 2023Seguros Equinoccial listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Insurance sector. Geographically, Seguros Equinoccial is reported in Ecuador.

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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Seguros Equinoccial

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

40m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 28, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: Ecuador
Sector: Insurance
Listed on leak site: Jan 28, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Seguros Equinoccial is a leading Ecuadorian insurance company founded in 1973. It provides insurance solutions for both individuals and companies, operating within the Ecuadorian market. The company has positioned itself as a comprehensive insurer focused on customer service quality.

Industry: Insurance
Founded: 1973

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Seguros Equinoccial is an insurance company, meaning its data holdings almost certainly include regulated PII at scale (policyholder names, identification numbers, financial and health-related insurance data). The status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration and public disclosure of likely sensitive personal and financial records.

Vice Society claims to have attacked Seguros Equinoccial and published data (disclosed_status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data, though the specific volume and nature of exfiltrated files are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Insurance policyholder records
Client personal information
Corporate insurance data

What the group claims

Seguros Equinoccial was born in 1973 and since then it has been a leading company in the Ecuadorian market, always seeking to provide an excellent service to its clients and the most complete insurance solutions for individuals and companies.

Sources

Victim sitesegurosequinoccial.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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