Was Netcom-World hit by ransomware?

Netcom-World was listed by the apos ransomware operation, 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 apos ransomware group?

apos 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 Netcom-World breach?

apos published data attributed to Netcom-World. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Netcom, Inc.

listed as Netcom-World · Claimed by Apos · listed 1 year ago

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 4, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Apos
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Telecommunication
Listed on leak site: Mar 4, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Netcom, Inc. is a privately-owned IT services company established in 1995 and headquartered in New York City. They provide managed IT support, help desk services, and technology infrastructure for small businesses (10–200 employees), nonprofits, and professional organizations across the Eastern Seaboard and nationwide, with additional operations in Atlanta and Mumbai.

Industry: IT Services & Managed Support
Address: 303 Fifth Avenue Suite 510, New York, NY 10016
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1995

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published ('data_published' status), indicating exfiltration occurred; however, the leak post provides no proof files, screenshots, or specifics about data type or scale. The victim is an IT services provider, which could imply access to client systems and sensitive data, but without concrete evidence of what was taken, severity cannot be escalated to 'high'.

The apos ransomware group claims to have compromised netcom-world.com and published data. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration method, or data types are disclosed in the leak post.

medium

What the group claims

🌐 netcom-world.com💲 Undisclosed📍 Undisclosed

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About apos

The apos ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in April 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through ransomware operations targeting organizations across multiple countries and sectors. Given their recent emergence and limited public documentation, their country of origin and affiliations with other ransomware groups remain unknown, though their targeting pattern suggests they may operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Based on available data, the group has successfully compromised 16 known victims across Brazil, the United States, Argentina, Canada, and France, with a particular focus on technology, healthcare, business services, and manufacturing sectors, though their attack methodology and specific tools remain undocumented by major threat intelligence firms. No notable high-profile campaigns or major ransom payments have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small victim count. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting, though their limited public footprint suggests they are either a smaller operation or have managed to maintain a low profile in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post August 15, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 4, 2025Netcom-World listed by aposon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by apos

apos 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 Telecommunication sector, which has 172 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by apos means Netcom-World 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 apos'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.