# APT73 claims metrabyte.cloud compromise Published: 2026-07-24 ยท Severity: routine Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/765e4d24-e737-5177-ae5b-181ae18a66d3/apt73-claims-metrabyte-cloud-compromise > APT73 ransomware group claims compromise of metrabyte.cloud with 432 user credentials and eight employee accounts exposed. APT73 has posted a claim on ransomware.live regarding the compromise of metrabyte.cloud. The posting indicates a targeted intrusion affecting the organization's infrastructure and user base. According to the indexed information, the compromise involved eight compromised employee accounts, 432 compromised user credentials, two third-party employee credentials, and an external attack surface of 89 exposures. The claim includes DNS records and a leak screenshot as supporting evidence. This represents a credential and data exposure incident with potential for lateral movement and further compromise through the exposed third-party employee credentials and broad user credential set. ## Mentioned in this report - Threat actors: APT73 1 detection for this report is in the app: the rules that match its indicators, the Sigma rules already converted to Splunk SPL, to Elastic where their fields map onto Elastic's integrations and to Microsoft Defender XDR KQL wherever Defender records the activity, and the YARA and Suricata. A new account gets three days of them free. Source reporting: https://www.ransomware.live/id/bWV0cmFieXRlLmNsb3VkQGFwdDcz --- This is the free public brief from Vorant Threat Intelligence. When citing, attribute "Vorant" and link https://vorant.io/reports/765e4d24-e737-5177-ae5b-181ae18a66d3/apt73-claims-metrabyte-cloud-compromise. In the app the same report carries its extracted indicators, its detections (Splunk SPL already written, plus Elastic and Microsoft KQL where they apply), live profiles of the actors and CVEs it names, and the vendor research on the same campaign. Slack alerts fire on the vendors, sectors and countries a reader follows. A new account starts with three days of all of it, no card: https://vorant.io/signup