Was keliweb hit by ransomware?

keliweb was listed by the vect ransomware operation (Italy), 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 vect ransomware group?

vect 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 keliweb breach?

vect published data attributed to keliweb (~200 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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keliweb

Claimed by Vect · listed 5 months ago

200 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 28, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Vect
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Feb 28, 2026
Data size: 200 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Keliweb is an Italian web hosting and cloud services provider based in Calabria, Italy, offering shared hosting, dedicated servers, VPS, CDN, domain registration, SSL certificates, PEC (certified email), and cloud backup solutions. The company operates its own datacenter with a stated SLA of 99.99% uptime and holds ISO certifications. Its services target individuals, businesses, web agencies, and public administration clients across Italy.

Industry: Web Hosting & Cloud Services
Address: Via della Resistenza, Rende (CS), Calabria, Italy
Employees: 11-50

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Keliweb is a multi-tenant hosting provider; a 200 GB exfiltration likely encompasses PII and business-sensitive data of thousands of downstream customers (individuals and businesses), including email, domain, and billing records — constituting large-scale regulated data exposure affecting third parties beyond the direct victim.

The group 'vect' claims to have exfiltrated approximately 200 GB of data from Keliweb and reports the status as 'Negotiating' with a 28-day deadline, indicating both potential encryption and confirmed or imminent data publication. No ransom amount has been stated.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer account data
Domain registration records
Hosting configuration data
Business/company files
Potentially PII of hosted clients

What the group claims

Status: STATUS: NEGOTIATING | Sector: IT | DATA SIZE: 200GB | Deadline: 28d 7h

Sources

Victim sitekeliweb.it

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About vect

The Vect ransomware group is an emerging threat actor first observed in January 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their ransomware deployment patterns. With limited public documentation available from major cybersecurity organizations, the group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families. Based on available victim data, Vect has compromised at least 23 organizations globally, with primary focus on Brazil, the United States, South Africa, Namibia, and Egypt, demonstrating a geographically diverse targeting approach that spans multiple continents. The group appears to concentrate their attacks on manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and energy sectors, suggesting they may seek targets with critical infrastructure dependencies or valuable data assets, though their specific attack methodologies and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence providers. Given the group's recent emergence in early 2026, comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures remains limited in public threat intelligence reporting. As of current reporting, Vect appears to remain active, though the limited public visibility suggests they operate at a smaller scale compared to prominent ransomware-as-a-service groups that typically attract more extensive law enforcement and security researcher attention. The group has been linked to 25 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 6, 2026; most recent post April 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 28, 2026keliweb listed by vecton the group's public leak site

Data size: 200 GB

Other recent disclosures by vect

vect has been linked to 25 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full vect dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, keliweb is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by vect means keliweb 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on vect'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.