Disclosure context

About unsafe

The "unsafe" ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through ransomware deployment and extortion schemes. Based on limited public documentation, the group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. With 14 documented victims since their emergence, the group has demonstrated a focused targeting approach, primarily concentrating their attacks on manufacturing organizations, transportation and logistics companies, and government entities across the United States, Switzerland, and France. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, limiting detailed analysis of their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group, likely due to their relatively recent emergence and smaller scale of operations compared to more established ransomware families. Current intelligence suggests the group remains active as of available reporting, though their limited public footprint makes definitive status assessment challenging without additional threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 21, 2022; most recent post January 14, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 21, 2022Dooly County School System listed by unsafeon 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, Dooly County School System is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Dooly County School System

Claimed by unsafe · listed 3 years ago

$20.00M

Est. revenue

company size proxy

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 21, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: unsafe
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Dec 21, 2022
Estimated revenue: $20.00M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Dooly County School System is a public K-12 school district serving Dooly County, Georgia, USA, operating under the domain dooly.k12.ga.us. It provides primary and secondary education to students in the Vienna, Georgia area. The district is a small rural school system with an estimated annual revenue of approximately $20 million.

Industry: K-12 Public Education
Address: Vienna, Georgia, United States
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosure status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration and public release of data from a K-12 school system, which likely contains sensitive PII including minor students' records — a regulated category under FERPA — elevating severity to high, potentially critical if student PII is confirmed at scale.

The ransomware group 'unsafe' claims to have attacked Dooly County School System and has published data ('data_published' status), suggesting exfiltration of school district data; no ransom amount or specific data volume was disclosed in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

School district records
Student data (probable)
Staff/employee records (probable)
Administrative documents (probable)

What the group claims

country: US - revenue: 20.00M

Sources

Victim sitedooly.k12.ga.us

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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