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Dubai Municipality

Claimed by Daixin · listed 2 years ago

25m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 5, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Daixin
Status
Data leaked
Country
UAE
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Jun 5, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Dubai Municipality is the municipal governing body responsible for city services, infrastructure maintenance, and public facilities across the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It operates under the authority of the Dubai Executive Council and manages essential municipal functions for the city.

Industry
Government Administration
Address
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration from a sovereign government entity (UAE municipal authority) responsible for critical city infrastructure and services. Government data at national/emirate level constitutes sensitive/regulated information with potential impact on public services and national security.

Daixin claims to have compromised Dubai Municipality and published exfiltrated data. The specific scope of data accessed and operational impact details are not disclosed in the available post excerpt.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government records
  • Municipal administrative data

What the group claims

Dubai Municipality is the Government of Dubai municipal body with jurisdiction over city services and the upkeep of facilities in the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates and reports directly to the Dubai Executive Council.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Daixin

Daixin is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly documented sources, though their targeting patterns suggest sophisticated operational capabilities and potential access to healthcare sector vulnerabilities. Daixin employs typical ransomware attack methodologies including data exfiltration prior to encryption, implementing double extortion tactics to pressure victims into payment by threatening to release stolen sensitive information alongside system encryption. The group has demonstrated a pronounced targeting preference for healthcare organizations, which represents a significant portion of their documented victims, alongside government entities and financial services organizations. Their geographic focus centers heavily on the United States while also targeting victims across Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, and Canada, indicating either broad operational reach or collaboration with regional affiliates. With 21 documented victims since their emergence, Daixin represents a relatively newer but active threat actor in the ransomware landscape. Current intelligence suggests the group remains operationally active as of recent assessments, continuing to pose threats to critical infrastructure sectors, particularly healthcare organizations that may be viewed as high-value targets due to the sensitive nature of their data and operational dependencies. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 3, 2022; most recent post September 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 5, 2024Dubai Municipality listed by Daixinon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Daixin

Daixin has been linked to 21 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Daixin dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Dubai Municipality is reported in UAE, a country with 81 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Daixin means Dubai Municipality 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 Daixin'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.