Was iycsa.com.co hit by ransomware?

iycsa.com.co was listed by the Braincipher ransomware operation (Colombia), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Braincipher ransomware group?

Braincipher is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the iycsa.com.co breach?

Braincipher published data attributed to iycsa.com.co. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Instrumentos y Controles S.A. (IYCSA)

listed as iycsa.com.co · Claimed by Braincipher · listed 1 year ago

14m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 5, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Braincipher
Status: Data leaked
Country: Colombia
Listed on leak site: May 5, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

IYCSA (Instrumentos y Controles S.A.) is a Colombian company providing integrated solutions for process industries, specializing in calibration, measurement, control, maintenance, and custom assembly services. Operating for over 50 years, the company serves clients across multiple industrial sectors with offices in Bogotá, Cali, Medellín, Barranquilla, Barrancabermeja, and Acacías/Castilla.

Industry: Industrial Measurement, Calibration & Control Systems
Address: Calle 39 N° 24-45, Bogotá, Colombia (Administrative); Calle 46A N° 82-54 Bodega 11 Grupo Empresarial San Cayetano II, Bogotá, Colombia (Laboratory)

Attack summary

Severity: low — Leak post is truncated/minimal with no substantive details on data type, volume, or proof files. No operational impact stated. Cannot confirm exfiltration of sensitive data beyond listing/announcement.

Braincipher claims to have attacked IYCSA and published data. No details are provided in the available leak post excerpt regarding what data was exfiltrated, whether encryption occurred, or the scope of the breach.

low

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Braincipher

Braincipher is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and targeting organizations primarily across North America and Europe. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing, likely operating as an independent entity rather than through established ransomware-as-a-service infrastructure. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, though their victim distribution across 44 confirmed targets spanning business services, manufacturing, technology, and healthcare sectors indicates a generalist approach to target selection rather than sector-specific expertise. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly documented against this group by reputable sources, suggesting either a relatively low-impact operational scale or insufficient intelligence collection on their activities. As of current reporting, the group's operational status remains unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 69 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 1, 2024; most recent post July 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: brain cipher.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 5, 2025iycsa.com.co listed by Braincipheron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Braincipher

Braincipher has been linked to 69 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, iycsa.com.co is reported in Colombia, a country with 66 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Braincipher means iycsa.com.co 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 Braincipher'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.