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Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation

listed as zewailcity.edu.eg · Claimed by Stormous · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 21, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Stormous
Status
Data leaked
Country
Egypt
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Dec 21, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation is a nonprofit, independent Egyptian institution focused on learning, research, and innovation. Founded in 2000 and located in Giza, it operates undergraduate and graduate programs across multiple schools, including science and technology disciplines, alongside research institutes and entrepreneurship initiatives.

Industry
Higher Education & Research
Address
Ahmed Zewail Road, October Gardens, 6th of October City, Giza, Egypt
Founded
2000

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group, indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, the specific nature, volume, and sensitivity of the data are not detailed in the post excerpt. Educational institution data may include PII but lacks indicators of regulated/financial/medical sensitivity sufficient for 'critical' or 'high' classification without further detail.

Stormous claims to have breached Zewail City and published data. No operational disruption or specific exfiltration details are stated in the available post excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • institutional records
  • academic data
  • student/faculty information

What the group claims

Zewail City of Science and Technology is a nonprofit, independent institution of learning, research and innovation. The concept of the City was proposed in 1999 and its cornerstone laid on January 1, 2000. After numerous delays, the project was revived by the Egypt

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Stormous

Stormous is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2022, operating primarily with financial motivations and has claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 165 victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's country of origin remains unclear from publicly documented sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation from major security firms indicates the group employs common ransomware tactics, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively detailed in reports from CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers. Their targeting appears geographically diverse with a focus on Spain, the United States, France, UAE, and Brazil, while showing particular interest in technology, hospitality and tourism, government, and business services sectors, though many of their victims span unspecified industries. As of current reporting, Stormous appears to remain an active threat, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent families that receive extensive coverage from major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 245 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 22, 2022; most recent post July 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 21, 2023zewailcity.edu.eg listed by Stormouson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Stormous

Stormous has been linked to 245 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 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, zewailcity.edu.eg is reported in Egypt, a country with 12 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Stormous means zewailcity.edu.eg 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 Stormous'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.