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Ministry of Defense of Peru

Claimed by Ransomexx · listed 2 years ago

763.8 GB
Data size
27m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 22, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomexx
Status
Data leaked
Country
Peru
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Apr 22, 2024
Data size
763.8 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Ministry of Defense of Peru (Ministerio de Defensa del Perú) is the government agency responsible for overseeing defense and security affairs of the Republic of Peru.

Industry
Government - Defense
Address
Lima, Peru

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive government defense data at significant scale (763.8 GB) from a critical national security agency. Defense ministry data constitutes state secrets and critical infrastructure information.

Ransomexx claims to have exfiltrated 763.8 GB of data from the Ministry of Defense of Peru. No details provided on encryption status or specific data categories.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government defense records
  • Security affairs documentation
  • Institutional data

What the group claims

The Peruvian Ministry of Defense (Ministerio de Defensa del Perú) is the government agency responsible for overseeing the defense and security affairs of Peru. Leaked data size: 763.8GB.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomexx

RansomEXX is a financially motivated ransomware operation that emerged in May 2020, targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on extracting ransom payments through encryption and data theft tactics. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with suspected ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminals based on code analysis and operational patterns observed by security researchers. RansomEXX operators typically gain initial access through exploiting public-facing applications, particularly targeting vulnerable VPN appliances and remote desktop services, before deploying their custom ransomware payload which uses strong encryption algorithms and is often preceded by data exfiltration to enable double extortion schemes where stolen data is threatened to be publicly released if ransom demands are not met. The group has been responsible for several high-profile attacks including incidents against government entities and major corporations, with documented cases involving ransoms in the millions of dollars, though specific victim details are often kept confidential by affected organizations. Based on recent threat intelligence reporting, RansomEXX continues to maintain active operations as of 2024, with ongoing campaigns targeting the technology and healthcare sectors primarily in the United States and Europe. The group has been linked to 86 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2020; most recent post June 20, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Ransom X, Defray777, Defray-777, Defray 2018.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 22, 2024Ministry of Defense of Peru listed by Ransomexxon the group's public leak site
Data size
763.8 GB

Other recent disclosures by Ransomexx

Ransomexx has been linked to 86 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ministry of Defense of Peru is reported in Peru, a country with 10 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomexx means Ministry of Defense of Peru appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Ransomexx's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.