Was Saudi Icon hit by ransomware?

Saudi Icon was listed by the kazu ransomware operation (Saudi Arabia), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the kazu ransomware group?

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

What data was leaked in the Saudi Icon breach?

kazu published data attributed to Saudi Icon. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Saudi Icon

Claimed by Kazu · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 29, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Kazu
Status: Data leaked
Country: Saudi Arabia
Listed on leak site: Dec 29, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Saudi Icon is a Riyadh-based design and build firm founded in 2014, offering end-to-end construction, fit-out, interior architecture, and turnkey solutions across Saudi Arabia. The company serves a diverse range of sectors including hotels, workspaces, restaurants, gyms, retail, and healthcare facilities. Notable clients include the Diriyah Gate Development Authority, New Murabba Development Company, and Red Sea Global.

Industry: Design, Build & Fit-Out Construction Services
Address: 2nd Floor, Hamad Tower, King Fahd, Al Olaya District, Riyadh 12584, KSA
Founded: 2014

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published (disclosed), indicating confirmed exfiltration; however, no regulated personal data (PII at scale, medical, financial) is specifically evidenced, and the victim is a construction/design firm with no critical infrastructure designation. Moderate business data exposure warrants medium severity.

The ransomware group Kazu claims to have attacked Saudi Icon and has published data from the company, indicating exfiltration of company data. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
Project documentation
Client records
Internal files

What the group claims

Saudi Icon specializes in design and build solutions, offering a holistic approach to construction and turn-key services. The company caters to a diverse clientele, including hotels, workspaces, restaurants, gyms, and healthcare facilities across Saudi Arabia. With a focus on creativity, functionality, and quality construction, Saudi Icon aims to redefine modern living through thoughtful design and tailored services. Their extensive portfolio showcases significant projects, along with a reputation for delivering high-end fit-out solutions and innovative constructions

Sources

Victim sitewww.saudi-icon.com

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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Disclosure context

About kazu

The Kazu ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in November 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple sectors and geographic regions. Given their recent emergence and limited public documentation, details about their country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting of diverse international victims suggests either a ransomware-as-a-service model or an independent operation with broad reach capabilities. With only nine documented victims to date, specific details about Kazu's attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting spans healthcare, public sector, financial services, and technology organizations across the United States, Colombia, South Africa, Nigeria, and Great Britain. The group's recent emergence means there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by established security research organizations like Mandiant, CISA, or the FBI. As of the latest available intelligence, Kazu appears to remain active given their very recent first observation date, though their limited victim count and recent emergence make definitive assessments of their operational status preliminary. The group has been linked to 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 11, 2025; most recent post May 27, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 29, 2025Saudi Icon listed by kazuon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by kazu

kazu has been linked to 14 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full kazu dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Saudi Icon is reported in Saudi Arabia, a country with 44 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by kazu means Saudi Icon 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 kazu'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.