Disclosure context

About Onyx

Onyx is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2022, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion operations targeting organizations across North and South America. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware operations remain undetermined based on publicly available threat intelligence. Onyx has demonstrated a preference for targeting government and transportation sector entities, with their attack methodology and technical capabilities including initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices not comprehensively documented in open-source intelligence reports from major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. The group has compromised 28 known victims, with the majority of their operations concentrated in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico, suggesting either a geographic targeting preference or regional access capabilities. Due to Onyx being a relatively smaller ransomware operation with limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources like CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, ransom demands, or high-profile victim organizations has not been extensively reported in public threat assessments. The current operational status of the Onyx ransomware group remains unclear based on available open-source intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 28 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2022; most recent post November 21, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 21, 2022www.wayan.com.mx listed by Onyxon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.wayan.com.mx is reported in Mexico, a country with 92 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Wayan Vota

listed as www.wayan.com.mx · Claimed by Onyx · listed 3 years ago

42m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 21, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Onyx
Status: Data leaked
Country: Mexico
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Nov 21, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Wayan Vota is an individual digital development entrepreneur and consultant specializing in information and communication technologies for international development. He publishes ICTworks, an online community reaching 25,000 weekly subscribers, and has led technology programs in 16 countries totaling over $360 million in value. He also runs Career Pivot, a professional community supporting displaced foreign-assistance workers.

Industry: Digital Development Consulting & ICT4D
Employees: 1

Attack summary

Severity: low — No leak post content, no stated data size, no described exfiltration or encryption details, and the target appears to be a personal/individual website rather than a large organisation holding regulated or sensitive data at scale.

The Onyx ransomware group claims to have attacked the domain www.wayan.com.mx associated with Wayan Vota, with data listed as published; no leak post details, claimed data volume, or description of exfiltration or encryption activity were captured.

low

Sources

Victim sitewayan.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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