Disclosure context

About crypto24

Crypto24 is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2025, with a primary financial motivation evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple geographic regions. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting pattern suggests either independent operations or a new ransomware-as-a-service offering given the diverse geographic spread of their 43 documented victims. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not yet been thoroughly documented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of technology, financial services, healthcare, and business services sectors indicates they likely employ common initial access vectors such as phishing or exploitation of public-facing applications to gain entry into victim networks. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in the United States while also conducting operations across Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, as well as extending their reach to Egypt, suggesting either a globally distributed affiliate network or opportunistic targeting based on vulnerable infrastructure discovery. Crypto24 remains active as of the latest available intelligence reporting, though given their recent emergence, comprehensive details about their specific tactics, techniques, and procedures await further analysis by established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 5, 2026Rowad Modern Engineering listed by crypto24on the group's public leak site

Data size: 700 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 415 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Rowad Modern Engineering is reported in EG, a country with 15 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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Rowad Modern Engineering

Claimed by crypto24 · listed 3 months ago

700 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 5, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: crypto24
Status: Data leaked
Country: EG
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Mar 5, 2026
Data size: 700 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Rowad Modern Engineering is one of Egypt's most reputable turnkey construction contractors, operating for over 25 years. The company undertakes large-scale, multidisciplinary projects spanning civil engineering, infrastructure, power plants, solar installations, commercial and residential buildings, and heritage restoration. It has contributed to globally significant projects including the Beni Suef 4800 CCPP (world's largest combined cycle power plant) and the Benban Photovoltaic Solar Park.

Industry: Turnkey Construction & Engineering Contracting
Address: Egypt

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, indicating some level of exfiltration and public disclosure has occurred, but no specific data types, volume, or evidence of regulated/sensitive PII, financial, or government data is confirmed in the available post details.

The crypto24 ransomware group claims to have disclosed data belonging to Rowad Modern Engineering, with the post status marked as 'data_published'. No specific ransom demand, data volume, or explicit description of encryption or exfiltration scope was stated in the available post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company project data
Engineering documents
Business records

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Rowad Modern Engineering is an Egypt-based construction firm specializing in the implementation and delivery of various construction projects. The company offers services ranging from civil engineering and construction management to project costing and risk management. It has a prominent role in constructing infrastructure, roads, commercial, and residential buildings.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

## Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI)
QBRI is a premier research institute under Hamad Bin Khalifa University focused ...
Rowad Modern Engineering (RME) is a leading Egyptian construction conglomerate s ...
We have successfully acquired and exfiltrated 700GB of proprietary data from the ...
Founded in 1993 in Monterrey, Mexico, Katcon is a leading global Tier 1 supplier ...
ActionPower is an AI innovation company that automates documentation through 'da ...
O'Farrell is a leading full service law firm in Argentina, with the longest trac ...

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Rowad Modern Engineering

Sources

Victim sitewww.rowad-rme.com

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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