Was rsk-immobilien hit by ransomware?

rsk-immobilien was listed by the Helldown ransomware operation (Germany), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Helldown ransomware group?

Helldown is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the rsk-immobilien breach?

Helldown published data attributed to rsk-immobilien. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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RSK Immobilien GmbH

listed as rsk-immobilien · Claimed by Helldown · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 23, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Helldown
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 23, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

RSK Immobilien GmbH is a German real estate development company based in Weißenfels that specializes in project development, realization, and marketing of residential and commercial properties. The company provides comprehensive services including site analysis, land acquisition, feasibility studies, and project management across multiple phases from concept to completion.

Industry: Real Estate Development & Project Management
Address: Merseburger Straße 12, 06667 Weißenfels, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a domain listing with no proof files, screenshots, or data samples provided. No data categories, exfiltration claims, or operational impact are stated. This appears to be a listing-only announcement.

Helldown claims to have compromised RSK Immobilien GmbH's systems. The leak post provides minimal detail; no specific data categories or operational disruption are stated.

low

What the group claims

www.rsk-immobilien.de

Sources

Victim sitersk-immobilien.de
Leak posthttp://onyxcgfg4pjevvp5h34zvhaj45kbft3dg5r33j5vu3nyp7xic3vrzvad.onion/475ef1b2.html

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Helldown

Helldown is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in August 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and business sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public reporting from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting patterns suggest a sophisticated understanding of high-value victims across Western nations, particularly the United States, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom. Based on available data, Helldown has compromised at least 37 known victims since their emergence, with their attacks primarily focused on business services, manufacturing, energy, and healthcare sectors, indicating a strategy of targeting organizations likely to pay substantial ransoms due to operational criticality. The group's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies, limiting detailed analysis of their operational procedures. As of current reporting, Helldown appears to remain active, representing a relatively new but concerning addition to the ransomware threat landscape, though the limited timeframe since their emergence and lack of comprehensive public analysis by established threat intelligence organizations suggests their full operational scope and impact are still being assessed by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 37 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 13, 2024; most recent post November 6, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 23, 2024rsk-immobilien listed by Helldownon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Helldown

Helldown has been linked to 37 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Helldown dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, rsk-immobilien is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Helldown means rsk-immobilien appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Helldown's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.