Disclosure context

About d4rk4rmy

d4rk4rmy is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting of high-value sectors including financial services and technology organizations. With only 18 documented victims to date, the group appears to be in its early operational phase, demonstrating a geographically diverse targeting approach across the United States, Taiwan, Brazil, Poland, and Monaco, with particular focus on financially lucrative sectors such as financial services, technology, transportation and logistics, and hospitality and tourism industries. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model remain largely undetermined by major cybersecurity organizations such as CISA, FBI, or prominent security research firms. The group's current operational status appears active based on the recent timeline of their emergence, though comprehensive analysis of their capabilities, notable campaigns, and potential law enforcement actions is limited due to insufficient publicly available intelligence from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 18 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post August 16, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 16, 2025VINSON & ELKINS LLP listed by d4rk4rmyon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, VINSON & ELKINS LLP is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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VINSON & ELKINS LLP

Claimed by d4rk4rmy · listed 9 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Aug 16, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: d4rk4rmy
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 16, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vinson & Elkins LLP is a century-old global law firm headquartered in the United States, serving leading companies across multiple industries. The firm specializes in complex matters spanning antitrust, banking and finance, corporate transactions, energy, intellectual property, labor and employment, and litigation.

Industry: Legal Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Law firms handle highly sensitive client data, privileged communications, and confidential business information. Exfiltration of such materials affects regulated entities, government agencies, and corporate clients, and constitutes a breach of attorney-client privilege and fiduciary duty. Data has been published by the group.

The d4rk4rmy group claims to have accessed Vinson & Elkins' systems and exfiltrated data. The group has published the data but no specific details about the scope or nature of exfiltrated materials are provided in the available post excerpt.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client files
Legal documents
Corporate records
Confidential business information

What the group claims

https://www.velaw.com Vinson & Elkins is a century-strong global law firm that partners with leading companies across key industries on wide‑ranging, complex matters. Blending deep experience with forward‑thinking counsel and close client collaboration, the firm helps organizations pursue goals and navigate…

Sources

Victim sitewww.velaw.com
Leak posthttp://d4rkd2fybtclo44hss2dpqpw7gmofboxhruax2az3uejw7puxxbpkvqd.onion/?p=307

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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