Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 13, 2023I&G Brokers Database, Download Now listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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I&G Brokers

listed as I&G Brokers Database, Download Now · Claimed by ransomed · listed 3 years ago

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 13, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 13, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

I&G Brokers appears to be a financial or insurance brokerage firm based on the victim name. No public site excerpt was available to confirm operational details, location, or scale. The name suggests it operates in a brokerage capacity, likely intermediating financial or insurance products.

Industry: Insurance & Financial Brokerage

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) for a financial services brokerage, which likely contains regulated financial PII such as client records, account details, or policy information. Direct publication without ransom demand indicates confirmed exfiltration and immediate public exposure.

The group 'ransomed' claims to have exfiltrated a database from I&G Brokers and published it as a downloadable archive via a file-hosting service (qu.ax). No ransom demand was stated, indicating direct data publication without negotiation.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Broker database records
Potentially client/customer PII
Financial account or policy data

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

https://qu.ax/nEqR.7z

Sources

Victim sitequ.ax
Leak posthttp://f6amq3izzsgtna4vw24rpyhy3ofwazlgex2zqdssavevvkklmtudxjad.onion/?p=94

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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