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EPS FUJ Private School UAE

Claimed by Bqtlock · listed 9 months ago

9m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 11, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Bqtlock
Status
Data leaked
Country
UAE
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Oct 11, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

EPS FUJ Private School UAE appears to be a private school operating in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, under the EPS (Emirates Private School) brand or similar. The institution likely provides primary and/or secondary education to students in the Fujairah emirate. No further verifiable details are available from the public site.

Industry
K-12 Private Education
Address
Fujairah, UAE

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating some data has been released, and an educational institution would hold minors' PII and sensitive records. However, the leak post provides no detail on volume or confirmed sensitive data categories, preventing a critical rating.

The bqtlock ransomware group claims an attack against EPS FUJ Private School UAE and has disclosed data as published, though the leak post contains only the victim's domain with no further detail on encryption, exfiltration volume, or specific data categories.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Student records
  • Staff personal information
  • Administrative documents

What the group claims

epsfuj.com www.epsfuj.com

Sources

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About bqtlock

Based on available intelligence, bqtlock is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in July 2025, with documented attacks against at least five victims and appears to be financially motivated. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests possible operation from regions outside their primary victim countries. Attack methodologies and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though the group appears to focus on opportunistic targeting across diverse sectors including technology, public sector, and educational institutions. The ransomware primarily targets organizations in the United States and United Arab Emirates, suggesting either specific regional interests or exploitation of common vulnerabilities in these markets. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting from authoritative sources like CISA, FBI, or established security researchers, detailed information about their specific tools, tactics, and procedures remains undocumented in open-source intelligence. The group appears to remain active as of their recent identification in mid-2025, though their operational scale and long-term persistence remain to be determined. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 31, 2025; most recent post October 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 11, 2025EPS FUJ Private School UAE listed by bqtlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by bqtlock

bqtlock has been linked to 5 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full bqtlock dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, EPS FUJ Private School UAE is reported in UAE, a country with 81 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by bqtlock means EPS FUJ Private School UAE 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on bqtlock'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.