Was The University of Delhi hit by ransomware?

The University of Delhi was listed by the DYSPHOR1A ransomware operation (India) 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.

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The University of Delhi

Claimed by DYSPHOR1A · listed 2 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedAug 25, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: DYSPHOR1A
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: India
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Aug 25, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The University of Delhi is a major public university in New Delhi, India, founded in 1922. It offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs across science, arts, commerce, law, and technology.

Industry: Higher Education
Address: New Delhi, India
Founded: 1922

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of student PII at scale (500+ accounts) including identification documents and academic records from a major educational institution; exposure affects minors and vulnerable populations.

DYSPHOR1A claims to have compromised the university's systems and exfiltrated student records containing personally identifiable information, academic data, and identification documents. Approximately 500+ user accounts and CV information are stated to be exposed.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records with PII
Academic data
Identification documents
User accounts (~500+)
CV information

What the group claims

Major public university in New Delhi, India, founded in 1922. Offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs. Student records with PII, academic data, and identification documents were compromised.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

NEW: Netim Company database now available for auction — 48h countdown active — FRANCE // Payment Processing System
Source code, IPs, payment databases, customer PII — full infrastructure
Netim is a French domain name registrar and web hosting provider. Full compromise of internal systems — source code, infrastructure IPs, payment processing databases, customer PII, and internal business data.
Auction timer // USA timezone
52,000 officer records + 4,000 facial photos
Database containing records of 52,000 Indonesian police officers including email addresses, phone numbers, first and last names, passwords, location details, and 4,000 facial photographs.
### The University of Delhi (DU)
Student records with PII, academic data, and identification documents
The University of Delhi (DU) is a major public university in New Delhi, India, founded in 1922. It is one of India's most well-known universities, offering undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs across subjects like science, arts, commerce, law, and technology.
~500++ user accounts and cv information
Normal Hunters operation compromising Job Net .COM.MM business data, exposing corporate information, user accounts, and busi…

Data the group says was taken

student records
PII
academic data
identification documents

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for The University of Delhi

Sources

Leak posthttp://y3maveiwszbnrziufbbberx74cvrdcsf72nxzuqxzv7ppdmmqzffazid.onion

Source

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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 12 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 20, 2026; most recent post August 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 25, 2026The University of Delhi listed by DYSPHOR1Aon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by DYSPHOR1A

DYSPHOR1A has been linked to 12 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 Education sector, which has 1,087 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The University of Delhi is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by DYSPHOR1A means The University of Delhi 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.