# Qilin ransomware claims Argentine municipal office

Published: 2026-10-10 · Severity: high · Sectors: government-national
Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/1f59b093-e7d1-5a12-a0a4-c15fc3817549/qilin-ransomware-claims-argentine-municipal-office

> Qilin ransomware gang lists Secretaría de Modernización e Innovación, a municipal government office, as a victim on its leak site.

Ransomware.live has indexed a listing from the Qilin ransomware group naming the Secretaría de Modernización e Innovación del Municipio (a municipal modernization and innovation secretariat, likely Argentine or Latin American based on the name) as a victim. The entry is sourced from Qilin's leak site and includes limited exposure metrics: 2 compromised employees, 379 compromised user accounts, 1 set of third-party employee credentials, and an external attack surface of 49 assets. No further technical details, exploitation method, or specific data samples are disclosed in this listing.

The posting appears to be an automated aggregation from a ransomware leak-site tracker rather than original incident analysis, offering minimal detail beyond confirming the claimed breach and basic scope metrics. There is no information on initial access vector, malware deployed, encryption impact, or ransom demand. Given Qilin's known modus operandi (double extortion via data leak sites following ransomware deployment), defenders in government/municipal sectors should treat this as indicative of ongoing targeting of public sector entities by this group, though no technical indicators are provided to action directly from this listing.

Defenders at municipal or government bodies, particularly in Spanish-speaking regions, should review exposure of employee and third-party credentials, monitor for infostealer infections (the listing references Hudson Rock's infostealer intelligence tooling), and ensure standard ransomware defenses (backup integrity, network segmentation, credential hygiene, and monitoring for Qilin-associated TTPs) are in place.

## Mentioned in this report

- Threat actors: qilin
- Malware: Qilin

Source reporting: https://www.ransomware.live/id/U2VjcmV0YXLDrWEgZGUgTW9kZXJuaXphY2nDs24gZSBJbm5vdmFjacOzbiBkZWwgTXVuaWNpcGlvQHFpbGlu

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