Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 155 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 1, 2026Ceywater Consultants listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ceywater Consultants is reported in LK, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Ceywater Consultants

Claimed by worldleaks · listed 20 days ago

19d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 1, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: worldleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: LK
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ceywater Consultants (Pvt) Ltd is Sri Lanka's oldest and leading independent engineering consultancy firm, established in 1983 and headquartered in Dehiwala, Sri Lanka. The firm specialises in water supply, sanitation, wastewater treatment, irrigation, roads and infrastructure, urban planning, and project management for local and international clients. It employs more than 150 professionals including engineers, geologists, hydrologists, quantity surveyors, and economists.

Industry: Engineering Consultancy (Water, Sanitation & Infrastructure)
Address: No. 54½ Maharagama Road, Nikape, Dehiwala, Sri Lanka
Employees: 150
Founded: 1983

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Status is 'data_published', confirming some level of exfiltration and release; however, the leak post provides no detail on data type, volume, or sensitivity, and no ransom or data size is stated. The company operates in infrastructure consultancy which could involve sensitive project and client data, but without evidence of regulated PII, financial, or government data at scale, 'medium' is appropriate.

The worldleaks group claims a data disclosure against Ceywater Consultants, with the status listed as 'data_published', indicating exfiltration and publication of company data. The leak post itself contains no specific detail on the nature or volume of data published.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Published company data (type unspecified)

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

Sources

Victim siteceywater.com
Leak posthttps://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/8077134684

Source

Indexed 20 days ago

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