Was Fabrics and Apparel Manufacturer hit by ransomware?

Fabrics and Apparel Manufacturer was listed by the VEXY ransomware operation (India) 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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Fabrics and Apparel Manufacturer

Claimed by VEXY · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 8, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: VEXY
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: India
Sector: Textile
Listed on leak site: Sep 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

A manufacturer, supplier and exporter/distributor of fabrics and apparel-related products, including cotton fabrics, shirting, suiting, jacquard, sherwani fabrics, uniforms, ladies' tops and readymade garments. Operating in India based on sector and victim classification.

Industry: Textiles & Apparel Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: low — The victim is listed among multiple targets in a disclosure announcement, but no proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory is provided. No operational impact or data exfiltration details are stated.

VEXY group claims to have compromised this fabrics and apparel manufacturer. The leak post lists the company among multiple targets but provides no specific details on the nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or data accessed.

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What the group claims

Manufacturer, supplier and exporter/distributor of fabrics and apparel-related products, including cotton fabrics, shirting, suiting, jacquard, sherwani fabrics, uniforms, ladies' tops and readymade garments.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Engefitas is a Brazilian company that produces various adhesive tapes and adhesives for industries like packaging, automotive, construction, electronic, and manufacturing sectors.
United Group is a diversified Indian business group delivering innovative, quality-driven products and services across multiple industries in India and global markets.
An active, unlisted public company incorporated in 2012, operating in real estate/construction and real-estate marketing & sales
New Delhi–based private technology company incorporated in 2013. Its registered business classification is software publishing, consultancy and supply, including software development, maintenance and web-page design. Its network records also identify MEGA VELOCITY PVT LTD as an Internet/hosting network operator.
IT services company providing web design & development, software/application development, payment gateway services, digital marketing, mobile applications, software testing and cloud-related services.
Manufacturer, supplier and exporter/distributor of fabrics and apparel-related products, including cotton fabrics, shirting, suiting, jacquard, sherwani fabrics, uniforms, ladies' tops and readymade garments
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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Fabrics and Apparel Manufacturer

Sources

Leak posthttp://vexytsr3chimdz6siwaqi2lvxxwfkxvffkpwyanr2llequ2hkm56jvqd.onion

Source

Indexed 5 days 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 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 4, 2026; most recent post September 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 8, 2026Fabrics and Apparel Manufacturer listed by VEXY on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by VEXY

VEXY 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 Textile sector. Geographically, Fabrics and Apparel Manufacturer is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by VEXY means Fabrics and Apparel Manufacturer 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.