Disclosure context

About medusalocker

MedusaLocker is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including technology, energy, healthcare, and manufacturing. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as part of the broader ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem that has proliferated in recent years. With 51 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, and Antigua and Barbuda, MedusaLocker appears to focus on opportunistic targeting rather than specific geographic or sectoral specialization. The group's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting of critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare and energy suggests they likely employ common ransomware tactics such as network encryption and potential data exfiltration. No major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement disruptions against MedusaLocker have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or other major security agencies. The current operational status of MedusaLocker remains unclear due to limited public documentation, though the relatively recent emergence date suggests the group may still be active or have transitioned to other operations. The group has been linked to 67 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 5, 2026Académie de Montpellier / CSJM listed by medusalockeron 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, Académie de Montpellier / CSJM is reported in FR, a country with 238 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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Académie de Montpellier / CSJM

Claimed by medusalocker · listed 15 days ago

15d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 5, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: medusalocker
Status: Data leaked
Country: FR
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: May 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Académie de Montpellier is a French public education authority overseeing primary and secondary schools across the Occitanie region of southern France. The CSJM (Collège/School network of the Beziers district, domain CSJM.BEZIERS) is a constituent administrative unit within this academy. As a regional académie, it manages thousands of teaching and administrative staff across hundreds of educational establishments.

Industry: Public Education Administration
Address: 31 rue de l'Université, 34000 Montpellier, France
Employees: 10001+

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of staff credentials from a public educational institution affects a large number of individuals, enables further account compromise across a government-linked network, and constitutes disclosure of personal/professional authentication data at scale.

MedusaLocker claims to have exfiltrated credential data — specifically teacher and administrative staff login credentials — from the CSJM.BEZIERS domain within the Académie de Montpellier network, with the data published publicly.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Teacher credentials
Administrative staff credentials
Domain account data (CSJM.BEZIERS)

What the group claims

French public school network. Domain CSJM.BEZIERS, part of Académie de Montpellier (ac-montpellier.fr). Occitanie region (laregion.fr). Teacher and admin staff credentials.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

File Manager File Manager home page BARAAAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAPAMAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAUARAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAVADAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAVACAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAVAQAI Data is being prepared for publication. Raycolighting DEMO 3137 S Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90058, USA $10 000 Organization with 2 emails extracted. Domain: raycolighting.com baralai Data is being prepared for publication. CEAGESP / Netfeirasp DEMO São Paulo, Brazil $20 000 Brazilian produce wholesale market network. Domain netfeirasp.ceagesp (CEAGESP). Also demarchibrasil.com.br accounts. Colegio María Inmaculada (CMI) DEMO Moravia, San José, Costa Rica $50000 Catholic school in Moravia, Costa Rica. Domain cmi.local / mariainmaculada.ed.cr. Servers: CMI-DC01, CMI-APP, CMI-HTTP2, main-server1/2. Académie de Montpellier / CSJM DEMO Béziers, Occitanie, France $15000 French public school network. Domain CSJM.BEZIERS, part of Académie de Montpellier (ac-montpellier.fr). Occitanie region (laregion.fr). Teacher and admin staff credentials. Palmers Relocations DEMO Victoria, Australia $63 000 Australian …

Sources

Victim siteac-montpellier.fr
Leak posthttp://t33zoj4qwv455fog7qnb2azi5xcdxkixughmmduzbw2rtdgryqfbh6id.onion/company/baiapai/

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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