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Verlat Energy Perú

listed as Verlat Energy · Claimed by Vect · listed 4 months ago

238 GB
Data size
4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 4, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Vect
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Energy
Listed on leak site
Mar 4, 2026
Data size
238 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Verlat Energy Perú (VERLAT) is a renewable energy generation company focused on improving Peru's energy matrix through clean sources including hydroelectric and solar power. The company operates a portfolio of 73 MW comprising six run-of-river hydroelectric plants in the Junín and Ancash departments of Peru, with additional solar assets in Chile. VERLAT is part of the French investment firm Ardian through its Ardian Clean Energy Evergreen Fund (ACEEF).

Industry
Renewable Energy Generation (Hydroelectric & Solar)
Address
Av. Pardo y Aliaga 699 – Of 701 B, San Isidro, Lima, Perú

Attack summary

Severity: high — 238 GB of data has been confirmed exfiltrated from a critical infrastructure energy company (renewable power generation), representing significant operational and potentially regulated business data exposure; the 'data_published' status confirms exfiltration rather than encryption-only.

The group 'vect' claims to have exfiltrated 238 GB of data from Verlat Energy and has published the data while listing the victim as still in negotiation with a 22-day deadline. No specific data categories are described in the leak post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate files (238 GB exfiltrated)

What the group claims

Status: STATUS: NEGOTIATING | Sector: Energy | DATA SIZE: 238GB | Deadline: 22d 3h

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About vect

The Vect ransomware group is an emerging threat actor first observed in January 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their ransomware deployment patterns. With limited public documentation available from major cybersecurity organizations, the group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families. Based on available victim data, Vect has compromised at least 23 organizations globally, with primary focus on Brazil, the United States, South Africa, Namibia, and Egypt, demonstrating a geographically diverse targeting approach that spans multiple continents. The group appears to concentrate their attacks on manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and energy sectors, suggesting they may seek targets with critical infrastructure dependencies or valuable data assets, though their specific attack methodologies and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence providers. Given the group's recent emergence in early 2026, comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures remains limited in public threat intelligence reporting. As of current reporting, Vect appears to remain active, though the limited public visibility suggests they operate at a smaller scale compared to prominent ransomware-as-a-service groups that typically attract more extensive law enforcement and security researcher attention. The group has been linked to 25 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 6, 2026; most recent post April 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 4, 2026Verlat Energy listed by vecton the group's public leak site
Data size
238 GB

Other recent disclosures by vect

vect has been linked to 25 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full vect dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Verlat Energy is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by vect means Verlat Energy 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on vect'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.