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International Business Service (IBS)

listed as International Busines Service · Claimed by Crypto24 · listed 1 year ago

15m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 8, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Egypt
Listed on leak site
Apr 8, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

International Business Service (IBS) is an Egyptian HR outsourcing company with over 40 years of experience, serving 391+ multinational and local clients. They provide payroll management, personnel administration, medical insurance, and work permit services for approximately 55,000 employees across Egypt.

Industry
HR Outsourcing & Payroll Services
Address
19786 2 Street 261, New Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
Employees
180+
Founded
1984

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Exfiltration of identity documents and PII at scale (3,000+ individuals) combined with payroll and HR data represents significant personal data exposure of regulated/sensitive information affecting thousands of employees across multiple client organizations.

Crypto24 claims to have exfiltrated identity cards (front and back) of approximately 3,000 people, along with HR reports and pay documents from IBS's systems.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Identity cards (3,000+ individuals, front and back)
  • HR reports
  • Pay/payroll documents

What the group claims

Identity cards including front and back of about 3,000 people (image, pdf), HR reports, Pay documents

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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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

  • April 8, 2025International Busines Service listed by crypto24on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, International Busines Service is reported in Egypt, a country with 29 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by crypto24 means International Busines Service 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 crypto24'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.