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, 2026ApexHospitals listed by vecton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

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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ApexHospitals

Claimed by vect · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 24, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: vect
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Feb 24, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Apex Hospitals is a healthcare organization operating under the domain apexhospitals.com, providing patient medical services. Based on the sector classification and data types referenced in the leak, the organization handles sensitive patient and employee records consistent with a hospital or multi-facility healthcare provider. No additional public site content was available to confirm scale or geographic location.

Industry: Healthcare & Hospital Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of regulated sensitive data including patient medical records, Social Security numbers, and employee PII — all of which fall under HIPAA and similar data protection frameworks, representing maximum severity.

The group claims to have exfiltrated and published data from Apex Hospitals, including employee PII, payroll and compensation records, Social Security/national ID numbers, and complete patient medical records including medical histories.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee PII
Payroll records and compensation data
Social Security numbers / national ID numbers
Complete patient medical records
Medical histories

What the group claims

Status: STATUS: LEAKED | Sector: healthcare | Employee personally identifiable information (PII) Payroll records and compensation data Social Security numbers / national ID numbers Complete patient medical records Medical histories and clinic...

Sources

Victim siteapexhospitals.com

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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