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GLOBALMalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareVanhelsingRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

Studio rag. Marco Vallone

bd_a6e3172904d08fa8 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 24, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Vanhelsing on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2025-03-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

We put commitment, curiosity, passion, optimism into our work every day, with a single important goal: to be satisfied, to learn something new every day with the challenges that our profession offers us. We love teamwork and each of us is called upon to make our qualities and skills available to the group. Excellence, as well as the limits of each of us, are enhanced and absorbed by the group, so

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 24, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2025-03-12

vanhelsing

According to ransomware.live, VanHelsing is a multi-platform RaaS operation that launched on March 7, 2025, requiring a $5,000 affiliate deposit and splitting ransoms 80/20, supporting Windows, Linux, BSD, ARM, and ESXi targets, reaching at least five victims across the US, France, Italy, and Australia within its first two months.

8 victims claimed globally8 tracked hereFull profile →