Was Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD) hit by ransomware?

Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD) was listed by the DYSPHOR1A ransomware operation (Myanmar) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the DYSPHOR1A ransomware group?

DYSPHOR1A is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD)

Claimed by DYSPHOR1A · listed 6 days ago

1.08 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 7, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: DYSPHOR1A
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: Myanmar
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Sep 7, 2026
Data size: 1.08 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD) is the official Myanmar government agency responsible for public transport services, driving license issuance, vehicle registration, and safety regulations.

Industry: Government Administration

Attack summary

Severity: high — Government agency compromised with 1.08 GB of databases exfiltrated. Road transport administration systems typically contain citizen PII, identification numbers, and vehicle ownership records at scale, affecting critical government functions and public safety infrastructure.

DYSPHOR1A claims to have obtained a full databases dump of 1.08 GB from RTAD's systems. The group lists this as part of a broader multi-victim disclosure but provides no specific details on the content or nature of the exfiltrated data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

driving license records
vehicle registration data
transport administration databases

What the group claims

Official government portal providing public transport services, driving license issuance, vehicle registration, and safety regulations.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

1.08 GB — full databases dump
Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD) — official government portal providing public transport services, driving license issuance, vehicle registration, and safety regulations. Full databases dump total 1.08 GB. Victim domain https://rtad.gov.mm.
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Data the group says was taken

databases

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD)

Sources

Victim sitehttps://rtad.gov.mm
Leak posthttp://y3maveiwszbnrziufbbberx74cvrdcsf72nxzuqxzv7ppdmmqzffazid.onion

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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Disclosure context

About DYSPHOR1A

DYSPHOR1A is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed at least five known victims across Southeast Asia since its emergence. The group has demonstrated a regional targeting focus, with activity concentrated in Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia, and has shown a preference for high-value sectors including education, government and defense, professional services, and financial services. Due to the group's limited operational history and small victim count at the time of this profile, detailed technical attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS infrastructure, or affiliation with established threat actor ecosystems has not been publicly confirmed by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations. Similarly, specific details regarding initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methodology, and extortion tactics remain undocumented in open-source intelligence, though the sectors targeted suggest an adversary with interest in sensitive data environments that may support double extortion operations. No major high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions against DYSPHOR1A have been publicly documented as of this writing. DYSPHOR1A should be considered an emerging and closely monitored threat actor, with its limited but geographically and sectorally consistent targeting pattern warranting continued observation by regional defenders and threat intelligence teams. The group has been linked to 25 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 20, 2026; most recent post September 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 7, 2026Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD) listed by DYSPHOR1A on the group's public leak site

Data size: 1.08 GB

Other recent disclosures by DYSPHOR1A

DYSPHOR1A has been linked to 25 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 Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD) is reported in Myanmar.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by DYSPHOR1A means Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD) appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 DYSPHOR1A'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.