Hermes is an obscure ransomware group that emerged in July 2018 with limited documented activity and appears to be financially motivated based on its ransomware operations. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely unknown, with insufficient public documentation from major security firms or law enforcement agencies to determine whether they operate independently or as part of a ransomware-as-a-service model. Attack methodology details are not well-documented in public threat intelligence reports, though like most ransomware operators they likely employ common initial access vectors such as phishing or exploit kits to deploy their encryption payloads. The group has maintained a notably low profile with only one publicly documented victim in the United States government facilities sector, suggesting either very limited operations or successful evasion of detection and reporting mechanisms. Current operational status of Hermes remains unclear due to the sparse nature of available threat intelligence, though their minimal documented activity since 2018 suggests they may have ceased operations, rebranded, or continue operating below the radar of major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 1 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 27, 2018. The operation is currently inactive.
Sector and geography
This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government Facilities sector, which has 84 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, City of Valdez is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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.
