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*.vps-vds.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, *.vps-vds.com is reported in Russia, a country with 22 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.

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*.vps-vds.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: Russia
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Aug 20, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

vps-vds.com appears to be a Russian-language hosting provider offering VPS and VDS (Virtual Private Server / Virtual Dedicated Server) services, likely targeting Russian-speaking customers. The domain pattern and sector classification suggest a cloud infrastructure or web hosting business. No further verifiable details are available from the leak post or public site excerpt.

Industry: Virtual Private Server / Web Hosting

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no details on data type, scale, or sensitivity are available to elevate to high or critical. A hosting provider could hold customer PII and infrastructure credentials, but this cannot be confirmed from available evidence.

The Icefire ransomware group claims to have attacked vps-vds.com and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating data was exfiltrated and published; however, no further details about the nature or volume of stolen data are available from the captured post.

medium

Sources

Victim sitevps-vds.com

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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