Disclosure context

About stormous

Stormous is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2022, operating primarily with financial motivations and has claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 165 victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's country of origin remains unclear from publicly documented sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation from major security firms indicates the group employs common ransomware tactics, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively detailed in reports from CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers. Their targeting appears geographically diverse with a focus on Spain, the United States, France, UAE, and Brazil, while showing particular interest in technology, hospitality and tourism, government, and business services sectors, though many of their victims span unspecified industries. As of current reporting, Stormous appears to remain an active threat, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent families that receive extensive coverage from major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 220 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 22, 2022; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 13, 2026vspsolutions.com.au SAMPLE-FREE 20GB listed by stormouson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, vspsolutions.com.au SAMPLE-FREE 20GB is reported in AU, a country with 155 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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VSP Solutions

listed as vspsolutions.com.au SAMPLE-FREE 20GB · Claimed by stormous · listed 7 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 13, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: stormous
Status: Data leaked
Country: AU
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

VSP Solutions (vspsolutions.com.au) is an Australian business operating in the security and surveillance technology sector, distributing and supplying products from major brands such as Hikvision and Axis to installers and integrators nationwide. The company manages shipment and order tracking for its customer base and maintains financial records via accounting platforms Quickbooks and Reckon.

Industry: Security & Surveillance Technology Distribution

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of significant business data including full financial backups, staff personal data, and nationwide customer/client databases; while not explicitly medical or government data, the scale and variety of sensitive business and personal records — combined with confirmed data_published status — warrants a high severity rating.

Stormous claims to have exfiltrated over 40GB of data including full financial backups, email archives, staff personal folders, customer/client databases, and shipment and order tracking records; the post indicates data has been published with a sample-free notice.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Full financial backups (Quickbooks & Reckon)
Email archives
Staff personal folders
Customer/client databases
Installer and integrator contact records
Shipment and order tracking records

What the group claims

+40G Full Financial Backups (Quickbooks & Reckon)-Email Archives & Staff Personal Folders-Customer/Client Databases (Installers & Integrators nationwide)-Shipment & Order Tracking for major brands like Hikvision & Axis.

Source

Indexed 7 days ago

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