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Comandancia General de la Policía Nacional del Ecuador

listed as Ecuador police headquarters · Claimed by HYFLOCK · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 13, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
HYFLOCK
Status
Data leaked
Country
Ecuador
Sector
Government & Defense
Listed on leak site
Oct 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The National Police of Ecuador's General Command is the country's top-level police administrative and command center, headquartered in Quito. It operates under the Ministry of Interior and is responsible for nationwide internal security, public order, and coordination of criminal investigations including cross-border cases through its INTERPOL National Central Bureau.

Industry
Government & Defense - National Police
Address
Av. Río Amazonas N36-152, Quito 170135, Ecuador

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed breach of a national government defence/law enforcement agency with direct access to INTERPOL databases, criminal investigations systems, and nationwide security operations. Compromise of such infrastructure poses immediate risks to active investigations, informant protection, and international law enforcement coordination.

HYFLOCK claims access to the General Command of Ecuador's National Police. The leak post provides organizational and structural details but does not explicitly state whether data was encrypted, exfiltrated, or both, nor does it specify what operational or intelligence data may be at risk.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Police organizational structure
  • Command hierarchy details
  • Criminal investigations department information
  • INTERPOL NCB Quito operational details

What the group claims

The Command of the National Police of Ecuador (Comandancia General de la Policía Nacional) is the country's top-level police administrative and command center. Here’s a breakdown of the key details: 🏢 Basic Info & Location • Headquarters Address: Av. Río Amazonas N36-152, Quito 170135, Ecuador (located on the main avenue, Amazonas Avenue, in the capital city, Quito). • Supervising Body: Directly under the Ministry of Interior of Ecuador, responsible for nationwide internal security and public order. • Official Website: Policía Nacional del Ecuador 🏛️ Core Organization & Department Structure Inside the General Command, there are multiple national-level core police and criminal investigation departments: 1. Top Command Layer (Mando Institucional): Led by the General Commander, with Deputy General Commander, Chief Inspector General, and directors in charge of public security, education, finances, and other areas. 2. Criminal Investigations Department: This is the headquarters' main operational unit, responsible for investigating major crimes, organized crimes, and cross-border crimes nationwide. 3. INTERPOL Quito National Central Bureau (NCB Quito): Located within the Criminal Investigations Department at the HQ, it provides 24/7 global intelligence connectivity, real-time access to INTERPOL databases, and leads nationwide cross-border wanted cases and law enforcement.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About HYFLOCK

HYFLOCK is a ransomware group first observed in October 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, representing an emerging threat actor with a limited but notable operational footprint of eight confirmed victims across multiple continents. The group's geographic targeting pattern spans Brazil, Canada, India, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia, suggesting a deliberate focus on economically significant nations across South America, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East rather than a regionally constrained operational posture. HYFLOCK has demonstrated a cross-sector targeting approach, with confirmed victims in Technology, Financial Services, and Government and Defense verticals, indicating opportunistic selection rather than strict industry specialization. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, the FBI, or Mandiant at the time of this profile, definitive attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS affiliation, specific tooling, or initial access vectors has not been publicly established. The breadth of targeted countries across multiple regions with no clear geographic concentration, combined with the inclusion of government and defense entities alongside private sector victims, warrants close monitoring as the group's tactics, techniques, and procedures become better documented through continued incident response activity. HYFLOCK should be considered an active and emerging threat, and organizations in the identified target sectors and geographies are advised to maintain heightened defensive posture pending further intelligence development. The group has been linked to 8 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 13, 2026Ecuador police headquarters listed by HYFLOCK on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by HYFLOCK

HYFLOCK has been linked to 8 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 Government & Defense sector, which has 7 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ecuador police headquarters is reported in Ecuador, a country with 4 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by HYFLOCK means Ecuador police headquarters 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 HYFLOCK'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.