Disclosure context

About Quantum

Quantum is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on high-value targets across English-speaking nations. The group's geographic targeting patterns and operational characteristics suggest possible connections to established ransomware ecosystems, though specific attribution or confirmed affiliations with other threat actors remain undocumented in public reporting. Quantum operators typically employ double extortion tactics, combining data encryption with the threat of public data exposure to maximize pressure on victims, and their campaigns have consistently targeted sectors with critical operational dependencies including business services, manufacturing, and information technology infrastructure. The group has maintained a relatively low public profile compared to other major ransomware operations, with their 68 documented victims representing a more selective approach to target acquisition rather than broad-scale campaigns. Despite limited public law enforcement reporting specifically focused on Quantum operations, the group's continued activity pattern suggests they remain an active threat as of recent observations, though comprehensive operational details remain scarce in publicly available threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post January 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: QuantumLocker, Mount Locker, DagonLocker.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 2, 2022Instituto Agrario Dominicano listed by Quantumon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 509 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Instituto Agrario Dominicano is reported in Dominican Republic.

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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Instituto Agrario Dominicano

Claimed by Quantum · listed 4 years ago

45m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 2, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Quantum
Status: Data leaked
Country: Dominican Republic
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Sep 2, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Instituto Agrario Dominicano (Dominican Agrarian Institute) is a decentralized government agency operating under the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Agriculture, established by Law No. 5879 on April 27, 1962. Its mandate is to carry out agrarian reform programs nationwide, including the seizure and redistribution of land to peasants in order to transform agricultural structure and production. It operates across the national geography of the Dominican Republic with a focus on improving rural living conditions.

Industry: Government Agricultural Reform Agency
Founded: 1962

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor from a government agency, indicating confirmed exfiltration of potentially sensitive public-sector records including land ownership, beneficiary PII, and agrarian program data. Government data breaches with confirmed publication warrant a high severity rating.

The Quantum ransomware group claims to have attacked Instituto Agrario Dominicano and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of government agency records; the leak post does not specify the volume of data or whether encryption was also performed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government agency records
Agrarian reform program data
Land distribution records
Peasant/beneficiary personal information

What the group claims

The Dominican Agrarian Institute is a decentralized government agency under the Ministry of Agriculture,established by Law No. 5879 as of April 27, 1962, with the aim of carrying out agrarian reform programs throughout the national geography by seizing and distributing land to peasants to transform the structure and agricultural production, improving living conditions in a Dominican villages.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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