Disclosure context

About Siegedsec

SiegedSec is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in December 2023, primarily motivated by hacktivism with a strong focus on anti-Israeli sentiment rather than traditional financial gain through ransomware operations. The group appears to operate independently with suspected ideological motivations tied to pro-Palestinian activism, though their exact geographic origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Unlike traditional ransomware groups, SiegedSec appears to focus on data theft and public exposure of sensitive information rather than encryption-based extortion, primarily targeting Israeli government entities through opportunistic attacks that exploit web application vulnerabilities and exposed credentials. The group has maintained a relatively low profile with 19 documented victims, almost exclusively targeting Israeli government infrastructure in what appears to be coordinated ideological attacks rather than broad financial campaigns. Based on available reporting, SiegedSec remains active as of late 2023 and early 2024, continuing their focused campaign against Israeli targets through data exfiltration and public disclosure operations. The group has been linked to 19 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 8, 2023; most recent post December 9, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 9, 2023Technical University of Mombasa listed by Siegedsecon 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, Technical University of Mombasa is reported in Kenya.

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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Technical University of Mombasa

Claimed by Siegedsec · listed 2 years ago

29m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 9, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Siegedsec
Status: Data leaked
Country: Kenya
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Dec 9, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Technical University of Mombasa (TUM) is a public technical university located in Mombasa, Kenya, established in 2013 when Mombasa Polytechnic University College transitioned to full university status. It operates five schools and two institutes covering sciences, engineering, business, humanities, medicine, computing, and maritime studies. The university offers programmes from certificate level through postgraduate and serves a student population drawn from across Kenya.

Industry: Higher Education (Technical University)
Address: Tom Mboya Street, Tudor, Mombasa, P.O. Box 90420-80100, Kenya
Founded: 2013

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the group against an educational institution likely holding student PII, staff personal data, academic records, and potentially financial information; SiegedSec is known for exfiltration-focused attacks, and the 'data_published' status confirms exfiltration rather than encryption-only.

SiegedSec claims to have attacked the Technical University of Mombasa and has published data from the institution; the leak post provides minimal detail but the disclosed status indicates data has been published. No ransom demand was stated and no specific data volume was disclosed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Staff/HR data
Academic records
Institutional documents

What the group claims

kenyan education

Sources

Victim sitetum.ac.ke

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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