Disclosure context

About Icefire

IceFire is a ransomware operation that emerged in August 2022, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion campaigns targeting various organizations. The group operates as an independent ransomware family with suspected ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminals, though definitive attribution remains unclear. IceFire employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before deploying their ransomware payload, and has been observed using various initial access methods including exploiting known vulnerabilities in internet-facing applications and services. The ransomware utilizes strong encryption algorithms to lock victim files and threatens to publish stolen data on leak sites if ransom demands are not met. While the group has maintained a relatively low profile compared to other major ransomware operations, security researchers have documented approximately 11 confirmed victims across different sectors since their emergence. IceFire remains active as of current intelligence reporting, continuing to evolve their tactics and target organizations globally. The group has been linked to 11 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 20, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 20, 2022*.guneshosting.com listed by Icefireon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, *.guneshosting.com is reported in Turkey, a country with 7 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Güneş Hosting

listed as *.guneshosting.com · Claimed by Icefire · listed 4 years ago

45m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Aug 20, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Icefire
Status: Data leaked
Country: Turkey
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Aug 20, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Güneş Hosting (guneshosting.com) is a Turkish web hosting and domain registration provider. Based in Turkey, the company appears to offer shared hosting, domain registration, and related internet infrastructure services to Turkish-market customers. No further operational details could be confirmed due to unavailable site content.

Industry: Web Hosting & Domain Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — A web hosting provider holds sensitive data for potentially many downstream customers (websites, credentials, billing info, domain records), meaning a confirmed data publication by Icefire creates significant third-party risk at scale, even without specific data volume details.

The Icefire ransomware group claims to have attacked Güneş Hosting and has published data ('data_published' status), though no leak post text or specific claims about encryption or exfiltration volume were captured.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer account data
Domain registration records
Hosting configuration files
Billing and payment information

Sources

Victim siteguneshosting.com

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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