Disclosure context

About Vendetta

Vendetta is a relatively minor ransomware group that emerged in February 2023, appearing to be financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely unknown due to limited public reporting, though their small scale of operations suggests they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a major ransomware-as-a-service operation. Details regarding Vendetta's specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms or government agencies, indicating either highly targeted operations or limited visibility into their activities. With only three known victims since their emergence, Vendetta has not conducted any widely reported major campaigns or attracted significant law enforcement attention, distinguishing them from more prominent ransomware groups that typically generate extensive threat intelligence reporting. The group's current operational status remains unclear due to the limited public documentation surrounding their activities, though the small number of attributed victims suggests either highly selective targeting or limited operational capacity. The group has been linked to 3 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 12, 2023; most recent post February 27, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 12, 2023albouyassociesconsult listed by Vendettaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consulting sector. Geographically, albouyassociesconsult is reported in France, a country with 472 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Albouyas & Associés Consult

listed as albouyassociesconsult · Claimed by Vendetta · listed 3 years ago

39m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 12, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vendetta
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Consulting
Listed on leak site: Feb 12, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Albouyas & Associés Consult is a French consulting firm founded in 1946, originally building its reputation in the agricultural cooperation sector over its first three decades. It has since evolved into a broader consulting practice based in France. Specific current scale and service lines are not fully disclosed in available sources.

Industry: Agricultural Cooperation & Management Consulting
Founded: 1946

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration of business data from a consulting firm that likely holds sensitive client and business records. The absence of stated data size limits escalation to critical.

The Vendetta ransomware group claims to have attacked Albouyas & Associés Consult and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data, though the specific volume and categories of data stolen are not detailed in the leak post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal company documents
Consulting records

What the group claims

Nos originesCréée en 1946, l'entreprise a durant les trois premières décennies, développé sa notoriété dans le secteur de la coopération agricole sur le plan...

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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