Disclosure context

About killsec

killsec is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating broad targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry sectors. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests opportunistic rather than geopolitically motivated operations. With 276 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Belgium, killsec appears to focus heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and financial sectors, indicating either specific tooling designed for these environments or opportunistic targeting of organizations with valuable data and high pressure to restore operations quickly. Given the group's recent emergence and the lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity firms like Mandiant or law enforcement advisories from CISA or FBI, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been publicly documented in authoritative sources. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited intelligence profile suggests they may be either a smaller operation or one that has not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations despite their substantial victim count. The group has been linked to 279 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2024; most recent post May 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 23, 2025National Institute of Administratio... listed by killsecon 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, National Institute of Administratio... is reported in RO, a country with 10 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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National Institute of Administration (INA)

listed as National Institute of Administratio... · Claimed by killsec · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 23, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: killsec
Status: Data leaked
Country: RO
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Oct 23, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The National Institute of Administration (INA) is a Romanian public institution operating under the Ministry of Development, Public Works, and Administration. It is dedicated to the professional development and training of civil servants and public administration personnel across Romania. INA plays a central role in improving the efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness of Romanian public services.

Industry: Public Administration Training & Civil Service Development
Address: Str. Eforie nr. 5, Sector 5, Bucharest, Romania

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a government-affiliated public institution handling civil servant and public administration personnel data; disclosed status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration of data that likely includes PII of government employees and sensitive institutional records.

KillSec claims to have compromised INA with data published ('data_published' status), suggesting exfiltration of data from a Romanian government-affiliated public institution; no ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Civil servant records
Training program data
Personnel information
Public administration documentation

What the group claims

The National Institute of Administration (INA) is a Romanian public institution dedicated to the professional development and training of civil servants and personnel in public administration. Operating under the coordination of the Ministry of Development, Public Works, and Administration, INA plays a pivotal role in enhancing the efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness of public services across Romania.

Sources

Victim siteina.gov.ro

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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