Was azpay.me hit by ransomware?

azpay.me was listed by the Apt73 ransomware operation (Azerbaijan), 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 Apt73 ransomware group?

Apt73 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 azpay.me breach?

Apt73 published data attributed to azpay.me. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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AZ Pay

listed as azpay.me · Claimed by Apt73 · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 5, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Apt73
Status: Data leaked
Country: Azerbaijan
Sector: Financial
Listed on leak site: Dec 5, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AZ Pay is a financial services company founded in 2018 that develops customized payment and sales solutions for various market segments, with a focus on intermediate markets. The company operates in Azerbaijan.

Industry: Financial Services & Payments
Founded: 2018

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Financial services company with confirmed disclosure by ransomware group, but no explicit proof files advertised, data inventory details, or ransom demand visible in the truncated post. Sector sensitivity warrants medium rating pending fuller post review.

Apt73 claims to have accessed AZ Pay systems. The group has published the leak post but specific details about what data was exfiltrated or whether encryption was deployed are not clearly stated in the available excerpt.

medium

What the group claims

Azape began its journey in 2018 by developing customized projects for various market segments, with its focus on developing solutions for intermedi...

Sources

Victim siteazpay.me
Leak posthttp://basherq53eniermxovo3bkduw5qqq5bkqcml3qictfmamgvmzovykyqd.onion/page_company.php?id=98

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Apt73

APT73 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in April 2024, with financial motivation as their primary driver based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid growth in their operational tempo, accumulating 78 documented victims within their first months of activity. Their targeting methodology shows a preference for English-speaking markets and major economies, with the United Kingdom and United States representing their primary focus areas, followed by significant activity in India, Brazil, and France. The group exhibits a clear preference for high-value sectors including business services, technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations, suggesting a calculated approach to victim selection based on potential payment capability and operational impact. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, or organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group's current operational status appears active based on the timeline of their emergence, though comprehensive analysis of their capabilities and infrastructure requires additional intelligence gathering and documentation by security researchers. The group has been linked to 161 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 22, 2024; most recent post July 6, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Eraleign.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 5, 2024azpay.me listed by Apt73on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Apt73

Apt73 has been linked to 161 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial sector, which has 426 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, azpay.me is reported in Azerbaijan.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Apt73 means azpay.me 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 Apt73'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.