vaud-promotion
darkrace listed this organization on its leak site on Jun 7, 2023.
- Listing date
- Jun 7, 2023
- Attack date
- Jun 7, 2023
Listing text
L’Association Vaud Promotion a pour but d’accroître la notoriété, la compétitivité et l’attractivité du canton de Vaud au moyen de la marque VAUD+ dont elle promeut les valeurs. Elle entend réaliser son but en collaboration avec les acteurs économiques, régions et institutions participant à la promotion du canton de Vaud, à travers les activités, produits et services qui en font le succès, qu’ils soient économiques, académiques, touristiques, culturels, sportifs, issus du terroir vaudois et gastronomiques.A cet effet, elle anime une communauté d’acteurs multisectoriels vaudois qui incarnent et véhiculent les valeurs de la marque VAUD+.
About the group
darkrace posted its first listing on May 31, 2023 and has listed 10 organizations to date.
DarkRace is a ransomware variant that surfaced in mid-2023 sharing strong code similarities with LockBit, employing double-extortion via a dark web leak site, but remained a minor player with fewer than 15 posted victims in its first half-year.
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What does this listing mean?
Ransomware groups move data out of the organization before encrypting systems and threaten to publish it if the ransom is not paid. This method is called double extortion.
The listing shows that the group claims to have targeted the organization. Whether the data was published is shown by the later status of the listing.
What should you do if your organization is listed on a leak site?
- Record the listing and any published sample files; do not visit the leak site from the corporate network.
- Isolate affected systems and preserve logs without deleting them.
- Determine which data left the organization; if personal data is involved, review notification obligations with your legal team.
- Make any decision about the ransom demand together with legal, management and incident response.
- Do not bring systems back online before the attacker’s entry point is closed.
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