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The University of Delhi (DU)

Claimed by DYSPHOR1A · listed 6 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 20, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
DYSPHOR1A
Status
Data leaked
Country
India
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Aug 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The University of Delhi (DU) is a major public university in New Delhi, India, founded in 1922. It offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs across science, arts, commerce, law, and technology.

Industry
Higher Education
Address
New Delhi, India
Founded
1922

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status confirmed, but leak post contains no specific details about data types, volume, or proof files. Educational institution compromise involving student/staff records would carry regulatory sensitivity, but lack of concrete evidence details prevents higher classification.

DYSPHOR1A claims to have compromised The University of Delhi. The leak post does not specify what data was exfiltrated or the nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both).

medium

What the group claims

The University of Delhi (DU) is a major public university in New Delhi, India, founded in 1922. It is one of India's most well-known universities, offering undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs across subjects like science, arts, commerce, law, and technology.

Source

Indexed 6 hours ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About DYSPHOR1A

DYSPHOR1A is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed at least five known victims across Southeast Asia since its emergence. The group has demonstrated a regional targeting focus, with activity concentrated in Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia, and has shown a preference for high-value sectors including education, government and defense, professional services, and financial services. Due to the group's limited operational history and small victim count at the time of this profile, detailed technical attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS infrastructure, or affiliation with established threat actor ecosystems has not been publicly confirmed by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations. Similarly, specific details regarding initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methodology, and extortion tactics remain undocumented in open-source intelligence, though the sectors targeted suggest an adversary with interest in sensitive data environments that may support double extortion operations. No major high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions against DYSPHOR1A have been publicly documented as of this writing. DYSPHOR1A should be considered an emerging and closely monitored threat actor, with its limited but geographically and sectorally consistent targeting pattern warranting continued observation by regional defenders and threat intelligence teams. The group has been linked to 6 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 20, 2026The University of Delhi (DU) listed by DYSPHOR1Aon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by DYSPHOR1A

DYSPHOR1A has been linked to 6 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,087 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The University of Delhi (DU) is reported in India, a country with 243 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by DYSPHOR1A means The University of Delhi (DU) 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on DYSPHOR1A'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.