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Daegu University

listed as dg.ac.kr · Claimed by AuditTeam · listed 2 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 16, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
AuditTeam
Status
Data leaked
Country
South Korea
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Sep 16, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Daegu University (dg.ac.kr) is a South Korean university based in Daegu. The institution operates as an accredited higher education provider in the region.

Industry
Higher Education

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of data from a higher education institution with public disclosure. Educational institutions hold PII at scale (student records, staff data, research information). The group explicitly states complete data archive publication, indicating material data exposure.

AuditTeam claims to have acquired data from the university and published sample artifacts as proof of breach. The group states that a complete data archive is now publicly available following expiration of an unspecified remediation window.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • University records
  • Institutional data

What the group claims

No data breaches

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[[ DATA EXPOSURE LOGS ]](http://6tdqqaxftvradka5d2frzgwixis7fmro7rfh4ettzcx7jfapkebe6jad.onion/)
### [ EVIDENCE OF ACQUISITION (SAMPLE) ]
Sample data artifacts have been published to validate our audit findings. Copy the links below to verify.
### [ PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY ARCHIVE ]
The remediation window has expired. The complete acquired data archive is now public.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About AuditTeam

AuditTeam is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in April 2026 and appears to be financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation, though their targeting of victims primarily across China, Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand suggests possible regional focus or language capabilities in Asian markets. With only five documented victims to date, AuditTeam appears to operate as a smaller-scale ransomware operation, showing particular interest in manufacturing and technology sectors alongside unspecified target types. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited scale of operations, there are no publicly documented major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant law enforcement actions against them by agencies such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms. The group's current operational status remains unknown given the sparse public intelligence available, and their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been comprehensively documented by reputable security researchers as of available reporting. The group has been linked to 41 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2026; most recent post September 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: audit team.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 16, 2026dg.ac.kr listed by AuditTeam on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by AuditTeam

AuditTeam has been linked to 41 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full AuditTeam dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,087 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, dg.ac.kr is reported in South Korea, a country with 20 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AuditTeam means dg.ac.kr 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, KrCERT/CC (South Korea), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on AuditTeam'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.