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

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, EPS FUJ Private School UAE is reported in UAE, a country with 41 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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EPS FUJ Private School UAE

Claimed by bqtlock · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 11, 2025
Data leaked

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

Victim siteepsfuj.comw
Leak posthttp://yywhylvqeqynzik6ibocb53o2nat7lmzn5ynjpar3stndzcgmy6dkgid.onion

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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