Disclosure context

About genesis

Genesis is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in October 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated a relatively aggressive operational tempo since emergence, accumulating 54 documented victims within a short timeframe. Given the limited public documentation available from established threat intelligence sources regarding this newly identified group, specific details about their country of origin, organizational structure, and precise attack methodologies remain under investigation by security researchers. The group's targeting patterns indicate a preference for victims in the United States and United Kingdom, with additional activity observed in Malaysia and Spain, suggesting either a broad operational scope or the use of automated targeting tools that do not discriminate by geography. Their sector targeting reveals a focus on healthcare, manufacturing, business services, and financial services organizations, indicating they may prioritize entities with both high revenue potential and critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited reporting from major threat intelligence organizations such as Mandiant, CISA, or FBI, comprehensive details regarding their specific encryption methods, initial access vectors, data exfiltration practices, or notable high-profile campaigns have not yet been publicly documented. Genesis remains an active threat as of current reporting, though their operational longevity and potential connections to established ransomware ecosystems continue to be assessed by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 82 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 21, 2025; most recent post May 19, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 9, 2026Van Atta Engineering listed by genesison the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Van Atta Engineering is reported in US, a country with 2,713 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Van Atta Engineering

Claimed by genesis · listed 12 days ago

11d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 9, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: genesis
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Van Atta Engineering (VAE) is a civil engineering and surveying firm based in Dayton, Ohio. The company operates under the domain vae.cc and is involved in project-based engineering and surveying work. No additional public site content was available to further characterize their scale or service offerings.

Industry: Civil Engineering & Surveying
Address: 570 Congress Park Dr, Dayton, Ohio

Attack summary

Severity: high — 300 GB of confirmed exfiltrated data has been published, encompassing financial records, email archives, project data, and user folder contents — representing significant business and potentially client-sensitive data disclosure at meaningful scale.

The Genesis ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 300 GB of data from Van Atta Engineering, including project data, operational data, financial data, email archives, file server contents, and network user folders. The data is described as published/accessible, with a file listing available via a Tor-hosted download link.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Project data
Operational data
Financial data
Company file server data
Email archives
Network user folders

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

A civil engineering and surveying firm located at 570 Congress Park Dr, Dayton, Ohio.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Van Atta Engineering is a civil engineering and surveying firm located at 570 Congress Park Dr, Dayton, Ohio. .

```
- 300 Gb of accessible data.
- Project Data
- Operational Data.
- Financial Data.
- Data from company fileserver. 
- Email archives.
- Folders of network users. 

```

[Download The List of Company Files](http://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/download/1735d195ab2ec136fe65.txt)

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Van Atta Engineering

Sources

Victim sitevae.cc
Leak posthttp://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/1735d195ab2ec136fe65/

Source

Indexed 12 days ago

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