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General Directorate of Civil Defense

listed as dcd.gov.ae · Claimed by Funksec · listed 2 years ago

18m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 30, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Funksec
Status
Data leaked
Country
UAE
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Dec 30, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The General Directorate of Civil Defense (GDCD) is a UAE government agency based in Abu Dhabi responsible for emergency preparedness, fire prevention, firefighting services, and public safety. The organization implements safety regulations, conducts inspections, and provides community education and training to protect lives, property, and the environment.

Industry
Government & Public Safety
Address
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed breach of a critical government agency responsible for emergency response and civil defense. Even without confirmed data exfiltration details, compromise of such infrastructure poses operational and national security risk.

Funksec claims to have compromised dcd.gov.ae and published data from the General Directorate of Civil Defense. The post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what categories of data were accessed.

high

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

The company "dcd.gov.ae" refers to the General Directorate of Civil Defense in Abu Dhabi, UAE. It is responsible for ensuring public safety through emergency preparedness, fire prevention, and firefighting services. The organization focuses on protecting lives, property, and the environment by implementing safety regulations, conducting inspections, and providing community education and training programs.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About funksec

Funksec is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in December 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim acquisition approach. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though they appear to operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model based on available intelligence. With 172 documented victims across multiple countries, Funksec has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, primarily focusing on the United States, India, Brazil, Spain, and Israel, with particular emphasis on technology companies, government entities, educational institutions, and business services organizations. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics, techniques, and procedures remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence firms, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests an established operational capability. Given the group's recent discovery in December 2024, there have been no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have drawn significant public attention from law enforcement or cybersecurity organizations. Funksec remains active as of early 2025, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 172 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 4, 2024; most recent post March 18, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 30, 2024dcd.gov.ae listed by funksecon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by funksec

funksec has been linked to 172 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 Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, dcd.gov.ae is reported in UAE, a country with 81 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by funksec means dcd.gov.ae 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 funksec'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.