Was www.fgse.cu.edu.eg hit by ransomware?

www.fgse.cu.edu.eg was listed by the GDLockerSec ransomware operation (Egypt), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the GDLockerSec ransomware group?

GDLockerSec is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the www.fgse.cu.edu.eg breach?

GDLockerSec published data attributed to www.fgse.cu.edu.eg (~7 MB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Faculty of Graduate Studies for Education, Cairo University

listed as www.fgse.cu.edu.eg · Claimed by GDLockerSec · listed 1 year ago

7 MB

Data size

17m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 26, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: GDLockerSec
Status: Data leaked
Country: Egypt
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Jan 26, 2025
Data size: 7 MB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Faculty of Graduate Studies for Education (FGSE) is a graduate-level academic institution within Cairo University in Egypt, responsible for advanced research and teaching in education disciplines.

Industry: Education - Higher Education / Graduate Studies

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data exfiltration of 7 MB from an educational institution likely containing PII (student/staff records), but the small data volume and lack of specific evidence of sensitive regulated data (medical, financial) places this below 'high'. Public disclosure without ransom demand suggests completed attack.

GDLockerSec claims to have exfiltrated approximately 7 MB of data from the institution. No operational encryption is mentioned; the group has published the data.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Academic records
Student/faculty personal information
Research documentation
Administrative files

What the group claims

7MB

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About GDLockerSec

GDLockerSec is an emerging ransomware group first observed in January 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their ransomware deployment patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation, though their targeting of victims across diverse geographic regions including the United States, Hong Kong, Egypt, Nigeria, and Morocco suggests either a broad operational scope or possible affiliate structure. With only five documented victims to date, GDLockerSec appears to focus on opportunistic targeting across multiple sectors including education, technology, and public sector entities, though their specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been publicly detailed by major security research organizations. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly reported for this group, likely due to their recent emergence and limited observed activity. The group appears to remain active as of early 2025, though comprehensive threat intelligence on their operations, capabilities, and infrastructure remains limited in public security research reporting. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 24, 2025; most recent post January 26, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: gd lockersec.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 26, 2025www.fgse.cu.edu.eg listed by GDLockerSecon the group's public leak site

Data size: 7 MB

Other recent disclosures by GDLockerSec

GDLockerSec has been linked to 5 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, www.fgse.cu.edu.eg is reported in Egypt, a country with 29 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by GDLockerSec means www.fgse.cu.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 GDLockerSec'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.