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ICON International, Inc.

listed as iconinternational.com · Claimed by Chaos · listed 8 months ago

8m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 12, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Chaos
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Nov 12, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ICON International, Inc. is a US-based corporate barter firm that provides media-backed financial solutions, helping brands transform underutilized assets into measurable growth. The company serves over 350 organizations across multiple sectors, acting as a growth partner and problem-solver. It offers solutions spanning real estate, marketing agencies, and media partnerships.

Industry
Corporate Barter & Media-Backed Financial Solutions

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration. ICON serves over 350 organizations and operates in financial/barter services, meaning leaked data likely includes sensitive business and financial information from multiple client organizations.

The Chaos ransomware group claims to have attacked ICON International, Inc. and has published data as part of a disclosed leak. The specific nature of exfiltrated data and whether encryption occurred is not detailed in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business financial records
  • Client organization data
  • Internal corporate documents

What the group claims

ICON International, Inc. is a corporate barter firm that offers innovative solutions and strategic thinking to help brands grow and create economic value.

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About chaos

Based on the limited publicly available information, Chaos is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in March 2025, appearing to be financially motivated given their ransom demands and targeting patterns. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their operational model and whether they operate as Ransomware-as-a-Service or as an independent entity has not been definitively established by security researchers. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities are not yet well-documented in public threat intelligence reports, though their targeting suggests they employ common initial access vectors to compromise victims across multiple sectors. Chaos has claimed 41 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, Germany, Poland, Malaysia, and Sweden, with a particular focus on technology companies, financial services, business services, and manufacturing sectors, though the scope and impact of their most significant attacks have not been widely publicized. The group currently appears to be active based on recent victim claims, though comprehensive analysis from major security firms regarding their long-term operational capabilities and potential law enforcement actions remains limited due to their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 69 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 31, 2025; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 12, 2025iconinternational.com listed by chaoson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by chaos

chaos has been linked to 69 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full chaos dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, iconinternational.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by chaos means iconinternational.com 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on chaos'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.