Disclosure context

About Icefire

IceFire is a ransomware operation that emerged in August 2022, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion campaigns targeting various organizations. The group operates as an independent ransomware family with suspected ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminals, though definitive attribution remains unclear. IceFire employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before deploying their ransomware payload, and has been observed using various initial access methods including exploiting known vulnerabilities in internet-facing applications and services. The ransomware utilizes strong encryption algorithms to lock victim files and threatens to publish stolen data on leak sites if ransom demands are not met. While the group has maintained a relatively low profile compared to other major ransomware operations, security researchers have documented approximately 11 confirmed victims across different sectors since their emergence. IceFire remains active as of current intelligence reporting, continuing to evolve their tactics and target organizations globally. The group has been linked to 11 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 20, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 20, 2022*.iperactive.com.ar listed by Icefireon 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, *.iperactive.com.ar is reported in Argentina, a country with 16 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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Iperactive

listed as *.iperactive.com.ar · Claimed by Icefire · listed 4 years ago

45m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Aug 20, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Icefire
Status: Data leaked
Country: Argentina
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Aug 20, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Iperactive (iperactive.com / iperactive.com.ar) is an Argentina-based technology company. Based on the domain and sector classification, it likely provides IT services or software solutions to clients in the Argentine market. No further details are available from the public site excerpt provided.

Industry: Information Technology Services

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, confirming at least some level of exfiltration from a technology company. However, no leak post details, data inventory, data volume, or evidence of regulated/sensitive data at scale are available to escalate to high or critical.

The Icefire ransomware group claims to have attacked Iperactive and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of company data, though no specific data categories, ransom demand, or data size were stated in the captured post.

medium

Sources

Victim siteiperactive.com

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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