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International Community Schools (ICS)

listed as www.icschool-uae.com · Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

33m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 23, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
NoEscape
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Arab Emirates
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Oct 23, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

International Community Schools (ICS) is a private multi-branch school group based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, offering American, British, IB, AP, and MoE curricula from Pre-KG/FS1 through Grade 12/Year 13. The group operates seven branches across Abu Dhabi (Mushrif, Al Danah, Al Falah City, Khalifa City, Al Manhal, Al Maharat, and a Nursery) and serves students of multiple nationalities. ICS is a rapidly growing private education provider with a focus on holistic, high-quality learning environments.

Industry
Private K-12 Education
Address
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a K-12 school holding sensitive PII for minors (students), parents, and staff across multiple campuses; 'data_published' status indicates actual data release by the threat actor, which in an educational context involving children's records meets the threshold for high severity, approaching critical given the vulnerable population involved.

The NoEscape ransomware group listed ICS as a victim with a disclosed status of 'data_published', indicating data has been released; however, no leak post content was captured, so the specific nature of the claimed exfiltration or encryption and the categories of data at stake cannot be confirmed from available evidence.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Student records (likely)
  • Parent/guardian personal information (likely)
  • Staff/employee records (likely)
  • Financial/admissions data (likely)

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About NoEscape

NoEscape is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in mid-2023, rapidly establishing itself as a significant threat with 249 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origins and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. NoEscape demonstrates sophisticated attack methodologies targeting critical infrastructure and essential services, with their campaigns showing a clear preference for high-value targets in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing sectors across developed nations, particularly focusing on the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Australia. The group's rapid victim accumulation rate since their June 2023 emergence indicates an aggressive operational tempo and effective attack capabilities, though specific technical details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, NoEscape appears to remain an active threat with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities. The group has been linked to 249 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post December 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 23, 2023www.icschool-uae.com listed by NoEscapeon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by NoEscape

NoEscape has been linked to 249 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full NoEscape dossier →

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.icschool-uae.com is reported in United Arab Emirates, a country with 9 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by NoEscape means www.icschool-uae.com 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, aeCERT (United Arab Emirates), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on NoEscape'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.