Disclosure context

About apt73

APT73 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in April 2024, with financial motivation as their primary driver based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid growth in their operational tempo, accumulating 78 documented victims within their first months of activity. Their targeting methodology shows a preference for English-speaking markets and major economies, with the United Kingdom and United States representing their primary focus areas, followed by significant activity in India, Brazil, and France. The group exhibits a clear preference for high-value sectors including business services, technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations, suggesting a calculated approach to victim selection based on potential payment capability and operational impact. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, or organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group's current operational status appears active based on the timeline of their emergence, though comprehensive analysis of their capabilities and infrastructure requires additional intelligence gathering and documentation by security researchers. The group has been linked to 141 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 22, 2024; most recent post April 27, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Eraleign.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 27, 2026arrawdah.org.sa listed by apt73on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, arrawdah.org.sa is reported in SA, a country with 7 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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Al Rawdah Da'wah and Community Awareness Society (جمعية الدعوة والإرشاد وتوعية الجاليات بالروضة)

listed as arrawdah.org.sa · Claimed by apt73 · listed 23 days ago

23d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: apt73
Status: Data leaked
Country: SA
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Apr 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Al Rawdah Da'wah and Community Awareness Society is a Saudi Arabian non-profit Islamic organisation registered under registration number 3415, originally established in 1413 AH (circa 1992) with the approval of Sheikh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz and supervised initially by the General Presidency of Scholarly Research and Ifta. The organisation conducts Islamic outreach (da'wah) activities targeting non-Muslims and new Muslims across more than 200 countries in 14 languages, and claims to have guided over 230,000 people to Islam. It operates digital platforms, educational projects, and community awareness programmes, and is supervised by the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.

Industry: Islamic Da'wah & Non-Profit Religious Organisation
Address: Al Rawdah district, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Founded: 1992

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration; however, the organisation is a small religious non-profit with no indication of large-scale regulated PII (e.g. medical or government data) at stake, and no ransom or data volume was specified, limiting assessed severity to medium.

The group APT73 claims to have compromised arrawdah.org.sa and has published data from the organisation. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post, but the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating exfiltration and public release of data.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Organisational records
Donor/beneficiary data
Financial reports
Internal society documents

What the group claims

Al Rawdah Cooperative Society is a cooperative organization in Saudi Arabia that provides social ...

Sources

Victim sitearrawdah.org.sa
Leak posthttp://basherq53eniermxovo3bkduw5qqq5bkqcml3qictfmamgvmzovykyqd.onion/page_company.php?id=155

Source

Indexed 23 days ago

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