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Department of Records Automation (DAF)

listed as DAF SENEGAL · Claimed by The Green Blood Group · listed 6 months ago

5m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 4, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
The Green Blood Group
Status
Data leaked
Country
Senegal
Sector
Public Sector
Listed on leak site
Feb 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

DAF (Département de l'Automatisation des Fichiers) is a Senegalese governmental agency operating under the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security. It manages national population databases, issues biometric identity cards (CNI CEDEAO), and maintains critical civil registration systems.

Industry
Government Administration & Civil Registry

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of personally identifiable information (PII) at national scale. Biometric data, population records, and civil registration systems represent sensitive governmental data affecting potentially millions of citizens. Regulatory and national security implications are severe.

The Green Blood Group claims to have breached DAF's systems. The post indicates exfiltration of data from national population databases and civil registration records, though specific data categories or volume are not detailed in the provided excerpt.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • national population database records
  • biometric identity card data (CNI CEDEAO)
  • foreign national identity documentation
  • civil registration records

What the group claims

Department of Records Automation (DAF) is a Senegalese governmental agency operating under the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security. The agency manages national population databases, issues biometric identity cards (CNI CEDEAO), processes foreign national identity documentation, and maintains other critical civil registration systems.

Source

Indexed 6 months ago

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Disclosure context

About The Green Blood Group

The Green Blood Group is a ransomware threat actor first observed in February 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against a very limited number of victims to date. As of the time of this writing, no reputable threat intelligence sources including CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or comparable research organizations have published detailed technical attribution or comprehensive operational profiles for this group, indicating it remains an emerging and obscure actor in the ransomware landscape. Based on available victim data, the group has targeted organizations in Egypt and Senegal, with a focus on the manufacturing and public sector verticals, suggesting a possible interest in operationally critical or government-adjacent targets in the African region. With only two known victims documented, the group's attack methodology, tooling, initial access vectors, encryption implementation, and extortion tactics remain largely uncharacterized in open-source intelligence, and it is unclear whether the group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service platform or functions as a closed, independent operation. Given its recent emergence and low victim count, The Green Blood Group should be monitored as a developing threat, particularly by organizations operating in manufacturing and public sector roles across North and West Africa, though definitive technical indicators and behavioral patterns await further documentation by the security research community. The group has been linked to 2 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 4, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 4, 2026DAF SENEGAL listed by The Green Blood Groupon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by The Green Blood Group

The Green Blood Group has been linked to 2 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 Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, DAF SENEGAL is reported in Senegal.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by The Green Blood Group means DAF SENEGAL 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 The Green Blood Group'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.