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Patchwire

listed as ***wire · Claimed by Vect · listed 5 months ago

4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 24, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Vect
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Feb 24, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

***wire (likely a law firm or legal services provider operating under a name ending in 'wire') is based in the United States and operates in the legal sector, as indicated by the ransomware group's sector classification of 'LAW'. No further details about scale or specific practice areas are available from public sources at this time.

Industry
Legal Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim operates in the legal sector, where data is likely to include privileged attorney-client communications, sensitive client PII, and confidential case materials. The 'data_published' status confirms exfiltration and active disclosure, elevating severity even without a specific data volume stated.

The group 'vect' claims to have attacked the victim and lists the status as 'NEGOTIATING', suggesting an active extortion attempt with a stated deadline of approximately 18 days; the disclosed status of 'data_published' indicates some data has been released or made available as leverage.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Legal documents
  • Client records
  • Case files
  • Potentially privileged communications

What the group claims

Status: STATUS: NEGOTIATING | Sector: LAW | Deadline: 18d 7h

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About vect

The Vect ransomware group is an emerging threat actor first observed in January 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their ransomware deployment patterns. With limited public documentation available from major cybersecurity organizations, the group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families. Based on available victim data, Vect has compromised at least 23 organizations globally, with primary focus on Brazil, the United States, South Africa, Namibia, and Egypt, demonstrating a geographically diverse targeting approach that spans multiple continents. The group appears to concentrate their attacks on manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and energy sectors, suggesting they may seek targets with critical infrastructure dependencies or valuable data assets, though their specific attack methodologies and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence providers. Given the group's recent emergence in early 2026, comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures remains limited in public threat intelligence reporting. As of current reporting, Vect appears to remain active, though the limited public visibility suggests they operate at a smaller scale compared to prominent ransomware-as-a-service groups that typically attract more extensive law enforcement and security researcher attention. The group has been linked to 25 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 6, 2026; most recent post April 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 24, 2026***wire listed by vecton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by vect

vect has been linked to 25 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full vect dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, ***wire is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by vect means ***wire 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on vect'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.