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Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE)

listed as Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação · Claimed by Ransomexx · listed 4 years ago

47m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 3, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomexx
Status
Data leaked
Country
Brazil
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Sep 3, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE) is a Brazilian federal autarchy under the Ministry of Education, headquartered in Brasília. It is responsible for financing and implementing major national education programs, including the National School Nutrition Program (PNAE), which serves approximately 47 million students across Brazil. Its mandate spans school transportation, national textbooks, school direct-funding transfers, literacy programs, and higher-education support initiatives.

Industry
Federal Government Education Funding & Administration
Address
Setor Bancário Sul, Quadra 2, Bloco F, Brasília, DF, Brazil
Founded
1968

Attack summary

Severity: critical — FNDE is a Brazilian federal government agency whose systems likely contain PII at massive scale (programs serving 47 million students), financial transfer records, and sensitive government administrative data; data_published status confirms exfiltration of regulated government and potentially student/beneficiary data.

RansomExx claims to have compromised FNDE systems and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of data from a Brazilian federal government agency serving tens of millions of students and administering multiple national education programs.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Federal agency operational data
  • Educational program records
  • School nutrition program data (PNAE)
  • Student-related administrative records
  • Government financial/transfer program data

What the group claims

The National Fund for Educational Development (FNDE) is a federal agency under the Ministry of Education, responsible for implementing programs nationwide, including the National School Nutrition Program – PNAE, which serves 47 million students throughout the country, offering adequate and safe food in schools. Since its establishment, the FNDE has undergone several changes, which became more intense when the Brazilian government laid the groundwork for the formation of a substantive conception of education that pervades all levels of education and procedures. Thus, the agency was strengthened, especially with regard to the ongoing management of activities, projects and educational programs as a strategy to support the promotion of educational quality. Nowadays, besides the National School Nutrition Program - PNAE, the FNDE is responsible for implementing the Programs of School Transportation, National Textbook, School Direct Money, Brazil Literate, Pro-Youth, Joint Action Plan, Pro-Child, Decentralization and the Open University Credits.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomexx

RansomEXX is a financially motivated ransomware operation that emerged in May 2020, targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on extracting ransom payments through encryption and data theft tactics. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with suspected ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminals based on code analysis and operational patterns observed by security researchers. RansomEXX operators typically gain initial access through exploiting public-facing applications, particularly targeting vulnerable VPN appliances and remote desktop services, before deploying their custom ransomware payload which uses strong encryption algorithms and is often preceded by data exfiltration to enable double extortion schemes where stolen data is threatened to be publicly released if ransom demands are not met. The group has been responsible for several high-profile attacks including incidents against government entities and major corporations, with documented cases involving ransoms in the millions of dollars, though specific victim details are often kept confidential by affected organizations. Based on recent threat intelligence reporting, RansomEXX continues to maintain active operations as of 2024, with ongoing campaigns targeting the technology and healthcare sectors primarily in the United States and Europe. The group has been linked to 86 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2020; most recent post June 20, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Ransom X, Defray777, Defray-777, Defray 2018.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 3, 2022Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação listed by Ransomexxon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ransomexx

Ransomexx has been linked to 86 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 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação is reported in Brazil, a country with 404 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomexx means Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT.br (Brazil), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Ransomexx'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.