Ransomware victim disclosure

Universidad Latina

listed as unila.edu.mx · Claimed by lockbit3 · listed 1 year ago

15m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 25, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: lockbit3
Status: Data leaked
Country: Mexico
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Feb 25, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Universidad Latina is a private Mexican university offering preparatory, undergraduate, and graduate programs across multiple campuses in Mexico City and Morelos. The institution provides both in-person and online education, with programs ranging from technical bachelor's degrees to master's programs, and claims to rank among Mexico's top 30 universities.

Industry: Higher Education & University
Address: Mexico City (CDMX) and Morelos, Mexico; multiple campuses including Roma, Sur, Cuernavaca, Cuautla

Attack summary

Severity: high — Educational institution with confirmed data exfiltration and publication. Likely exposure of student PII, academic records, and institutional data affecting hundreds or thousands of individuals. No specific proof count provided but publication confirms data theft.

LockBit3 claims to have attacked Universidad Latina and exfiltrated data. The group posted the victim on their leak site with data published, indicating both encryption and data theft occurred.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Academic transcripts
Administrative files
Financial records
Personnel data

What the group claims

Greetings! Today we are posting here the new company, "UNILA SA DE CV". Company Description: Universidad Latina is constantly advancing towards excellence and institutional accreditation, improving its physical and technological infrastructure...

Sources

Victim siteunila.edu.mx
Leak posthttp://lockbit4lahhluquhoka3t4spqym2m3dhe66d6lr337glmnlgg2nndad.onion/post/deTiq05VRBrw3XHS67bdaf439edd5

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit3

LockBit 3.0, also known as LockBit Black, is a prominent ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in June 2022 as the third major iteration of the LockBit ransomware family, operating with primarily financial motivations and becoming one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally. The group is believed to operate from Russia or former Soviet states, functioning as a sophisticated RaaS platform that recruits affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. LockBit 3.0 employs multiple initial access vectors including exploitation of remote desktop protocols, vulnerable VPN appliances, and phishing campaigns, utilizing a fast-encrypting ransomware payload that can complete network-wide encryption in minutes while implementing triple extortion tactics that include data theft, encryption, and threats to leak stolen information on their dedicated leak site called "LockBit Black Blog." The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against thousands of organizations worldwide, with notable victims including major corporations and critical infrastructure entities across their primary target countries of the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, focusing heavily on business services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and government sectors. Despite law enforcement disruptions including Operation Cronos in February 2024 which temporarily seized their infrastructure and websites, LockBit has demonstrated resilience by quickly rebuilding their operations and continuing to recruit new affiliates and victims. The group has been linked to 2,016 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 29, 2022; most recent post December 5, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 25, 2025unila.edu.mx listed by lockbit3on 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, unila.edu.mx is reported in Mexico, a country with 92 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.