Disclosure context

About shadowbyt3$

ShadowByt3$ is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in February 2026, appearing to be financially motivated based on its ransomware operations. The group's country of origin and any potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited intelligence available on this newly identified threat actor. Given the minimal public documentation available, the group's attack methodology, tools, and operational tactics have not been sufficiently analyzed or reported by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. No notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, with only one known victim reported to date and no specific sector targeting patterns identified. The current operational status of ShadowByt3$ remains unclear due to the limited intelligence available on this recently emerged and relatively unknown ransomware operation. The group has been linked to 7 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 25, 2026; most recent post May 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 14, 2026PowerCampus listed by shadowbyt3$on 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, PowerCampus is reported in IN, a country with 239 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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PowerCampus

Claimed by shadowbyt3$ · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 14, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: shadowbyt3$
Status: Data leaked
Country: IN
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: May 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PowerCampus is a cloud-based school management and collaboration platform targeting educational institutes in India. It offers services including online fee payments, exam management, online admissions, teacher-parent communication, and e-learning continuity tools.

Industry: EdTech & School Management Software

Attack summary

Severity: high — The platform handles PII of minors (students) at scale across Indian educational institutions, including financial transaction data (fee payments) and personal communications; disclosed status is data_published, indicating confirmed exfiltration affecting a potentially large number of individuals.

The group shadowbyt3$ claims to have compromised PowerCampus and published data; the leak post describes the platform's scope but does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor the volume of data involved.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Fee payment data
Exam management data
Admission records
Teacher and parent communications
E-learning content

What the group claims

Cloud-based school management and collaboration platform targeting educational institutes in India, covering online fee payments, exam management, online admissions, teacher-parent communication, and e-learning continuity.

Sources

Victim sitepowercampus.in

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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