Summary
On June 23, 2026, the ransomware group Aurora claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against Corporación Primax S.A. (primax.com.pe), Peru’s largest fuel distribution company. The attack has put sensitive financial, operational, and employee data at risk, with the threat of public exposure looming.
Incident Report
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Target | Corporación Primax S.A. |
| Domain | primax.com.pe |
| Country | Peru |
| Attacking Group | Aurora |
| Date Reported | June 23, 2026 |
| Threat Actor Statement | “[distribution, fuel] ***.A. is Peru’s largest fuel distribution company, operating 2,185+ stations across Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Uruguay with annualised revenue of approximately USD 3.4 billion (Peru alone). The dataset spans every function of the business: Complete financial reporting — Monthly P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and EBITDA through May 2025. GRIO (Grupo Romero Investment Office) management reporting packages. Budget 2025 vs. actuals. Employee identity data for 15,000–60,000 individuals — DNI national ID numbers, bank accounts, salary amounts, pension fund details, scanned identity documents. Live system credentials — Plaintext SQL database passwords, banking SFTP credentials (Banco Bolivariano Ecuador), AD encryption master key, OSINERGMIN fuel-control system credentials. Complete OT network map — IP addresses and identifiers for 137 fuel stations on the internal 10.55.40.x network, plus JD Edwards ERP production servers. 54 GB of POS transaction data — XML records of consumer fuel purchases across the entire station network. Legal and M&A documentation — Arbitration case files (PUCP/AMCHAM), UNO Corp acquisition materials (Dec 2025), bank covenant waivers.” |
Recommended Security Actions
Ransomware attacks are increasingly targeting both enterprise and mid-sized organizations across all sectors. The following steps are critical to reduce impact and prevent future incidents:
- Monitor continuously: Use DeXpose’s dark web and infostealer monitoring platform to detect breached credentials, leaked databases, and threat actor chatter in near real-time—before damage spreads internally.
- Conduct a compromise assessment: Immediately initiate a full incident review to determine how attackers infiltrated your network, what data may have been exfiltrated, and whether any persistence mechanisms remain active.
- Validate your backups: Ensure that your backups are current, encrypted, and stored offline. Utilize immutable backup solutions to defend against ransomware encryption and deletion attempts.
- Apply threat intelligence: Integrate external threat feeds, including DeXpose-provided indicators of compromise (IOCs), into your SIEM or XDR platforms for real-time alerting and correlation.
- Harden employee defenses: Run phishing simulations and enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) across all access points. Attackers often exploit weak or reused credentials sourced from the dark web.
- Engage professional response teams: Involve cybersecurity incident response experts, threat analysts, and legal counsel before initiating any dialogue with ransomware groups or ransom brokers.
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Disclaimer
DeXpose does not engage in the exfiltration, hosting, redistribution, or purchase of stolen data. All breach information reported here is collected from publicly accessible dark web sources and threat intelligence platforms.
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