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Deutsche Energie-Agentur

Claimed by Alphv · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 6, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Alphv
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Energy
Listed on leak site
Dec 6, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena) is a federally owned German public enterprise founded in 2000 that serves as a competence center for applied energy transition and climate protection. With approximately 700 experts from ~30 nations, dena supports the German government in achieving energy and climate policy goals and works across building retrofitting, renewable energy distribution, digitalization, and industrial transformation.

Industry
Energy Transition & Climate Policy
Address
Berlin and Halle (Saale), Germany
Employees
~700
Founded
2000

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration from a federally owned German government agency with critical role in national energy and climate policy. Compromise of such an entity carries significant geopolitical and operational sensitivity, though no specific regulated data category or scale is confirmed in the post.

ALPHV claims to have compromised dena's systems and exfiltrated data. The leak post provides background on the organization but contains no explicit statement of what data was taken or operational impact.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government energy policy documentation
  • Project files and internal communications
  • Employee and organizational records
  • Partner and contractor information

What the group claims

The German Energy Agency (dena) is a competence center for applied energy transition and climate protection. dena looks at the challenges of a climate-neutral society and supports the German government in achieving its energy and climate policy goals. Since it was founded in 2000, the agency has been developing solutions, putting them into practice and bringing together partners from politics, business, science and all parts of society - both nationally and internationally. dena is a project company and a federally owned public enterprise. Its shareholder is the Federal Republic of Germany.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About alphv

ALPHV, also known as BlackCat or Noberus, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021 and rapidly established itself as one of the most sophisticated and prolific ransomware operations observed by researchers at Mandiant, CISA, and the FBI. The group is suspected to have Russian-speaking origins and operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform, with well-documented links to former affiliates of the DarkSide and BlackMatter ransomware operations, suggesting a continuity of personnel and tradecraft across these successive rebrand events. ALPHV is technically distinguished by its use of Rust-based ransomware — an uncommon choice at the time of its emergence — which enabled cross-platform attacks against Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments; the group employs multiple initial access vectors including compromised credentials, phishing, and exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, and routinely conducts double and triple extortion by exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption and threatening victims with public disclosure on their dedicated leak site, with some cases involving additional pressure through direct contact with victim customers and regulators. ALPHV has claimed responsibility for high-profile attacks against MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment, Reddit, and healthcare provider Change Healthcare — the latter representing one of the most disruptive cyberattacks on the U.S. healthcare sector on record, with a reported ransom payment of approximately $22 million — and has accumulated over 731 known victims across the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular concentration in business services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and financial services sectors. In December 2023, the FBI and international partners conducted a disruption operation against ALPHV's infrastructure and released a decryption tool for victims; however, the group subsequently attempted to rebrand and continued operations before an apparent final collapse in March 2024, following an alleged exit scam against affiliates after the Change Healthcare ransom payment, with law enforcement officially attributing the group's infrastructure seizure shortly thereafter. The group has been linked to 731 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post March 3, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: BlackCat, Noberus.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 6, 2023Deutsche Energie-Agentur listed by alphvon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by alphv

alphv has been linked to 731 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full alphv dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Deutsche Energie-Agentur is reported in Germany, a country with 379 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by alphv means Deutsche Energie-Agentur 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 alphv'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.