VBW Makelaars and Taxateurs
About the organisation
VBW Makelaars & Taxateurs specializes in real estate and property valuations in the Netherlands. Real estate agency and certified appraisers
What the listing means
VBW Makelaars and Taxateurs appeared on the Deadlock leak site on 10 July 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 75 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing VBW Makelaars and Taxateurs as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on www.vbw.nl, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Business Services organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/VkJXIE1ha2VsYWFycyBhbmQgVGF4YXRldXJzQERlYWRsb2Nr
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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.
