Disclosure context

About lapsus$

Lapsus$ is a financially motivated cybercriminal group that emerged in December 2021, gaining notoriety for their aggressive extortion tactics and high-profile targeting of major corporations and government entities. The group is believed to have originated from South America, particularly Brazil, with suspected ties to young hackers operating independently rather than as a traditional ransomware-as-a-service operation, though they have demonstrated sophisticated coordination and insider recruitment capabilities. Lapsus$ primarily relies on social engineering techniques, SIM swapping, and insider threats to gain initial access to target networks, often recruiting employees through bribes or coercion rather than relying on traditional malware delivery methods, and they frequently employ data theft and public leak tactics for extortion rather than always deploying encryption-based ransomware. The group has conducted notable attacks against major technology companies including Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, and Okta, as well as targeting organizations across France, the United States, Brazil, Germany, and Canada, with a particular focus on consumer services, education, government facilities, and critical manufacturing sectors, leading to significant law enforcement attention and arrests of suspected members. Following arrests of key members by Brazilian and UK authorities in 2022, the group's activity has significantly diminished, though some security researchers suggest remnants may still be operational under different identities. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 10, 2021; most recent post May 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 5, 2026AXCERA.IO listed by lapsus$on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, AXCERA.IO is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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Axcera

listed as AXCERA.IO · Claimed by lapsus$ · listed 2 months ago

45d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 5, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: lapsus$
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Apr 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Axcera (axcera.io) is a US-based FinTech company providing unified CRM and trading infrastructure solutions for proprietary trading firms and brokers. Its platform covers challenge management, automated payouts, real-time risk monitoring, KYC/AML compliance, trading APIs, and analytics. The company reports serving 50+ prop firms worldwide, with over 1 million unique traders onboarded and $450M+ in total partner revenue.

Industry: Proprietary Trading & Brokerage Technology (FinTech)

Attack summary

Severity: high — Published exfiltration of proprietary source code and infrastructure configs from a FinTech platform serving 50+ prop firms and 1M+ traders represents significant business and supply-chain risk; infrastructure configs may expose credentials, API keys, and internal architecture enabling further compromise of downstream clients.

Lapsus$ claims to have exfiltrated Axcera's source code and infrastructure configuration files, with the disclosure status marked as data_published, indicating the stolen material has been released publicly.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Source code
Infrastructure configuration files

What the group claims

Source Code + Infrastructure Configs

Sources

Victim siteAXCERA.IO

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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