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World Federation of the Deaf - XX World Congress 2027

listed as wfd2027uae.ae · Claimed by Warlock · listed 1 year ago

11m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 17, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Warlock
Status
Data leaked
Country
UAE
Listed on leak site
Aug 17, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The XX World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf is a quadrennial international event scheduled for September 19–23, 2027 in Abu Dhabi. It serves as a global gathering for the deaf community to share experiences, promote accessibility, and advance deaf advocacy and inclusion worldwide.

Industry
Non-profit / International Conference Organization
Address
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Conference attendee and registration data (including PII such as names, nationalities, contact details) appears to have been exfiltrated at scale. However, no proof files are publicly advertised, and the target is a non-profit event organizer rather than a commercial or critical infrastructure entity. The sensitivity is moderate due to the international deaf community's potential vulnerability.

The Warlock group claims to have exfiltrated 'all data' from the congress registration and operational systems. No specific data types or volumes are detailed in the brief leak post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • registration records
  • participant personal information
  • operational/administrative files

What the group claims

all data

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About warlock

Warlock is an emerging ransomware group that first appeared in June 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern spans both Western nations and Russia, suggesting possible opportunistic rather than geopolitically-motivated operations. Based on available victim data, Warlock has demonstrated capability to compromise organizations across diverse sectors including technology, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare, with their attack methodology and technical capabilities requiring further analysis by security researchers to establish definitive patterns regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration tactics. While the group has accumulated 78 documented victims across the United States, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, and Turkey within their initial months of operation, insufficient public reporting from CISA, FBI, or major security firms exists to detail specific notable campaigns, ransom demands, or high-profile incidents. Given the group's recent emergence in mid-2025, their current operational status and potential evolution remain under observation by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 78 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 11, 2025; most recent post November 6, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 17, 2025wfd2027uae.ae listed by warlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by warlock

warlock has been linked to 78 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, wfd2027uae.ae is reported in UAE, a country with 81 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by warlock means wfd2027uae.ae 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on warlock'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.