Disclosure context

About killsec

killsec is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating broad targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry sectors. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests opportunistic rather than geopolitically motivated operations. With 276 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Belgium, killsec appears to focus heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and financial sectors, indicating either specific tooling designed for these environments or opportunistic targeting of organizations with valuable data and high pressure to restore operations quickly. Given the group's recent emergence and the lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity firms like Mandiant or law enforcement advisories from CISA or FBI, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been publicly documented in authoritative sources. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited intelligence profile suggests they may be either a smaller operation or one that has not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations despite their substantial victim count. The group has been linked to 279 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2024; most recent post May 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 24, 2025grade results listed by killsecon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, grade results is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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grade results

Claimed by killsec · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 24, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: killsec
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Dec 24, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Grade Results is a US-based education technology company providing an Assessment Management System for K-12 school districts. Its platform includes benchmark assessments, curriculum management, student information systems, learning management tools, and virtual classroom capabilities. The company serves districts with tools to collect and analyze student performance data across core and elective subjects.

Industry: K-12 Education Technology & Assessment Management

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The platform stores sensitive K-12 student PII at scale including academic records, IEP/ILP special education data, attendance, transcripts, and performance dashboards — all regulated under FERPA and potentially IDEA. Data publication of a student information and assessment management system serving multiple districts constitutes a critical-severity breach of regulated educational data.

KillSec claims to have compromised Grade Results and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post provides minimal detail on the nature of the attack or specific data volumes exfiltrated.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student performance data
Student records and transcripts
IEP/ILP learning goal records
Attendance records
Gradebook data
Teacher materials
User account information
Curriculum and course content
Report cards
Graduation requirement records

What the group claims

Price ??? Disclosures 0/1

Sources

Victim sitegraderesults.com

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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