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Quy Nhon University

Claimed by Vexy Ransomware · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 19, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Vexy Ransomware
Status
Data leaked
Country
Vietnam
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Sep 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Quy Nhon University (QNU) is a public, multidisciplinary university in Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam, established in 1977. It offers comprehensive academic programs across multiple faculties including teacher education, foreign languages, mathematics, natural sciences, information technology, business, and social sciences, with research institutes and support centers.

Industry
Higher Education
Address
Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam
Founded
1977

Attack summary

Severity: low — Disclosure is listing-only with no proof files, no operational impact stated, no confirmation of data exfiltration or encryption details provided.

Vexy Ransomware claims to have attacked Quy Nhon University. The leak post provides no specific details on whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or what specific data is at stake.

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What the group claims

Quy Nhon University (QNU) is a public, multidisciplinary university located in Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam. Established in 1977, the university has a long-standing tradition in teacher education and has developed into a comprehensive institution offering a wide range of academic programs.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Vexy Ransomware

Vexy Ransomware is a newly observed ransomware group first identified in September 2026 with limited public documentation available from major threat intelligence sources at this time. Based on available data, the group appears to be financially motivated, consistent with the broader ransomware ecosystem. With only a single confirmed victim recorded, Vexy remains an emerging or low-volume threat actor, though its targeting of the Energy and Utilities sector in Brazil warrants monitoring given the critical infrastructure implications of attacks against that vertical. No attributable country of origin, RaaS affiliation, or organizational links to established ransomware groups have been publicly confirmed by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or equivalent reputable research bodies as of the time of this writing. Similarly, specific details regarding initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methodology, or data exfiltration practices have not been publicly documented, and no notable high-profile campaigns or law enforcement actions have been recorded against this group. Given the group's nascent activity profile and single known victim, Vexy should be assessed as an emerging threat requiring continued observation, particularly for organizations operating within the Brazilian energy and utilities sector, as escalation in victim count or geographic and sectoral expansion may indicate maturation of the group's operational capabilities. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 3, 2026; most recent post September 19, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 19, 2026Quy Nhon University listed by Vexy Ransomware on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Vexy Ransomware

Vexy Ransomware has been linked to 16 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,087 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Quy Nhon University is reported in Vietnam, a country with 16 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Vexy Ransomware means Quy Nhon University 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 Vexy Ransomware'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.