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

May 22, 2023Cafpi listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cafpi 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.

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Cafpi

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 22, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: May 22, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CAFPI is France's leading mortgage broker, credited with creating the mortgage broker profession in France nearly four decades ago. Operating a network of approximately 200 agencies nationwide, the company offers services including mortgage loans, credit consolidation, borrower insurance, professional loans, and consumer credit. It serves both individual and professional clients across the French market.

Industry: Mortgage Brokerage & Credit Services
Founded: 1971

Attack summary

Severity: critical — CAFPI is a major French mortgage broker handling sensitive financial and personal data for thousands of clients; data_published status with confirmed exfiltration by Vice Society means regulated PII and financial data at scale has been exposed.

Vice Society claims to have attacked CAFPI and published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client financial records
Mortgage application data
Personal identification information
Credit and loan documentation
Internal business documents

What the group claims

Cafpi is the undisputed leader of the profession it created: that of Mortgage Broker. Prominent in the mortgage market for nearly 4 decades, CAFPI has developed wide-ranging expertise, and a vast network of partners.

Sources

Victim sitecafpi.fr/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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