Was yfynqygs.com hit by ransomware?

yfynqygs.com was listed by the lockbit5 ransomware operation (China), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the lockbit5 ransomware group?

lockbit5 is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the yfynqygs.com breach?

lockbit5 published data attributed to yfynqygs.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Yunan County Qingyuan Water Supply Co., Ltd.

listed as yfynqygs.com · Claimed by Lockbit5 · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Lockbit5
Status: Data leaked
Country: China
Listed on leak site: Feb 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Yunan County Qingyuan Water Supply Co., Ltd. is a water supply utility company located in Yunan County, Yunfu City, Guangdong Province, China. The company is responsible for the distribution and supply of water services to the local county population. It operates under the broader municipal/public utilities sector in Guangdong.

Industry: Water Supply & Distribution Utilities
Address: Yunan County, Yunfu City, Guangdong Province, China

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a public water supply utility serving a county-level population, making it critical infrastructure. A confirmed data_published status by a ransomware group against a water utility constitutes a high-severity incident due to potential operational disruption risk and public safety implications, even without explicit data inventory details.

The LockBit 5 group claims to have attacked Yunan County Qingyuan Water Supply Co., Ltd. and has disclosed data as published, though no specific ransom amount or data size was stated in the post.

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What the group claims

http://wx.yfynqygs.com/ Yunan County Qingyuan Water Supply Co., Ltd., located in Yunfu City, Guangd...

Sources

Victim siteyfynqygs.com
Leak posthttp://lockbitapt67g6rwzjbcxnww5efpg4qok6vpfeth7wx3okj52ks4wtad.onion/post/4a84e7b40310af6fee699bb9f06203d4

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit5

Based on the provided data, LockBit5 appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in December 2025, representing what may be a new iteration or rebrand within the LockBit ransomware ecosystem, with primary financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors. Given the LockBit naming convention and the timing of emergence, this group likely operates from Eastern Europe or Russia and may represent either a continuation of previous LockBit operations or a new affiliate group leveraging the established LockBit brand, though specific organizational details remain undocumented by major security agencies. While detailed attack methodologies have not been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's targeting pattern across 157 victims suggests a broad-spectrum approach focusing on technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation sectors primarily in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Italy, and Mexico. Due to the group's recent emergence in December 2025, there are no publicly documented notable campaigns or major incidents reported by established threat intelligence sources, though the victim count indicates active operations. The group appears to be currently active based on the recent first observation date, though comprehensive analysis from major security agencies has not yet been published given the short timeframe since emergence. The group has been linked to 278 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 7, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 23, 2026yfynqygs.com listed by lockbit5on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by lockbit5

lockbit5 has been linked to 278 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, yfynqygs.com is reported in China, a country with 29 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit5 means yfynqygs.com appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Monitor for the data appearing on lockbit5's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.