Was IT services company (web design & development) hit by ransomware?

IT services company (web design & development) was listed by the VEXY ransomware operation as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the VEXY ransomware group?

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

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IT services company (web design & development)

Claimed by VEXY · listed 2 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 20, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: VEXY
Status: Listed for ransom
Sector: IT Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

An IT services company specializing in web design and development, software and application development, payment gateway services, digital marketing, mobile applications, software testing, and cloud-related services.

Industry: IT Services

Attack summary

Severity: low — Listing only with no proof files, no confirmed data exfiltration, no operational impact stated, and no specific attack methodology disclosed.

The VEXY group has listed this IT services company as a victim. No specific claims about encryption, exfiltration, or data types are detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

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What the group claims

IT services company providing web design & development, software/application development, payment gateway services, digital marketing, mobile applications, software testing and cloud-related services.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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.
stpfashionlab.it is the website of STP Fashion Lab, a Tuscan company that has specialized in making Made in Italy womenswear for over twenty years. It produces the FRIVOLITÉ brand, founded in 2019, which targets independent, sensitive, and playful women.
Japanese company providing office equipment, IT equipment and services, office furniture, meeting/conferencing systems, and computer support.
Strad Solutions provides cloud hosting, dedicated servers, managed IT, cybersecurity, and disaster recovery services for businesses worldwide.
i2k2 Networks Pvt. Ltd., established in 1999, is a leading Indian provider of cloud computing, web hosting, managed IT, data center, backup, disaster recovery, and DevOps solutions. With 25+ years of experience, 4,000+ customers, Tier III-compliant data centers, and 24/7 support, i2k2 delivers secure, scalable, and reliable IT solutions worldwide.
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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for IT services company (web design & development)

Sources

Leak posthttp://vexytsr3chimdz6siwaqi2lvxxwfkxvffkpwyanr2llequ2hkm56jvqd.onion

Source

Indexed 2 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About VEXY

VEXY is a ransomware group first observed in September 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, though limited public documentation exists given its nascent operational history and small victim footprint. Based on available data, the group has claimed responsibility for attacks against two known victims, with targeting concentrated in Brazil and Ecuador, suggesting a regional focus on Latin American organizations. VEXY has demonstrated interest in the manufacturing and food and beverage sectors, industries that are frequently targeted due to their operational sensitivity and lower tolerance for downtime, which can increase the likelihood of ransom payment. No authoritative attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS affiliation, or technical tooling has been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources at this time, and the group's attack methodology, encryption implementation, and extortion tactics remain uncharacterized in open-source reporting. Given its very recent emergence and limited victim count, VEXY should be considered an emerging and closely monitored threat, particularly for organizations operating in Latin American manufacturing and food production verticals, though its long-term operational capability and sustainability have yet to be established. The group has been linked to 24 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 4, 2026; most recent post September 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 20, 2026IT services company (web design & development) listed by VEXY on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by VEXY

VEXY has been linked to 24 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full VEXY dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the IT Services sector.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by VEXY means IT services company (web design & development) appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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'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.