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vanirgroup

VanirGroup is an Eastern European ransomware group composed of former affiliates from Karakurt, LockBit, and Knight ransomware that emerged in mid-2024, before German law enforcement (Karlsruhe Public Prosecutor's Office) seized its leak site.

How we source and review actor profiles
Motivation
ransomware
Status
Dormant

Activity timeline

A dated ledger of actor-claimed victims, campaigns, indicators, identity mappings, relationships, and CVE links. Each date states what it measures. For extensive leak-site histories, victim entries are limited to the 100 most recent distinct listings.

Cataloged
RelationshipSame as relationship with vanir group

The cited upstream records use spacing or punctuation variants of the same actor name. Source records remain separate for provenance, while exact-name resolution prefers the reviewed canonical profile.

High
Cataloged
Indicator1 indicator cataloged

Types: onion.

Identity and attribution

Exact names and tracking identifiers resolve to this canonical profile. Rebrands, affiliations, and overlapping clusters remain separate confidence-rated relationships.

Name map

vanirgroupCanonical Name

Shared-name reviews

Every exact-name collision is reviewed. Same-actor decisions select a preferred profile while distinct and unresolved clusters remain separate.

Same actor high

The cited upstream records use spacing or punctuation variants of the same actor name. Source records remain separate for provenance, while exact-name resolution prefers the reviewed canonical profile.

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