Disclosure context

About apt73

APT73 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in April 2024, with financial motivation as their primary driver based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid growth in their operational tempo, accumulating 78 documented victims within their first months of activity. Their targeting methodology shows a preference for English-speaking markets and major economies, with the United Kingdom and United States representing their primary focus areas, followed by significant activity in India, Brazil, and France. The group exhibits a clear preference for high-value sectors including business services, technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations, suggesting a calculated approach to victim selection based on potential payment capability and operational impact. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, or organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group's current operational status appears active based on the timeline of their emergence, though comprehensive analysis of their capabilities and infrastructure requires additional intelligence gathering and documentation by security researchers. The group has been linked to 141 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 22, 2024; most recent post April 27, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Eraleign.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 27, 2026gedco.ps listed by apt73on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, gedco.ps is reported in PS, 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Gaza Electricity Distribution Company (GEDCO)

listed as gedco.ps · Claimed by apt73 · listed 23 days ago

23d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: apt73
Status: Data leaked
Country: PS
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Apr 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gaza Electricity Distribution Company (GEDCO) is the entity responsible for operating and distributing electrical power to hundreds of thousands of citizens and vital institutions across the governorates of Gaza, Palestine. It plays a central role in supporting humanitarian and economic stability in one of the world's most challenging environments. The company collaborates with governmental bodies, international organizations, and UN agencies, and is engaged in reconstruction and rehabilitation of damaged electrical infrastructure.

Industry: Electric Power Distribution & Utility Infrastructure
Address: Gaza Strip, Palestine

Attack summary

Severity: critical — GEDCO is critical national infrastructure providing electricity to hundreds of thousands of civilians and vital institutions (hospitals, water stations, sanitation) in an active humanitarian crisis zone; any exfiltration or disruption constitutes a critical-severity event affecting public safety and humanitarian operations.

The ransomware group APT73 claims an attack on GEDCO's systems with disclosed data published; no ransom amount was stated and no specific data volume was provided, but the disclosure status indicates data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Operational network data
Internal company documents
Potentially financial/loss records
Employee or administrative records

What the group claims

gedco.ps is the website of the Gaza Electricity Distribution Company (GEDCO), the electricity dis...

Sources

Victim sitegedco.ps
Leak posthttp://basherq53eniermxovo3bkduw5qqq5bkqcml3qictfmamgvmzovykyqd.onion/page_company.php?id=135

Source

Indexed 23 days ago

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