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The Holding Company for Construction and Development (HCCD)

listed as hccd-construction.com · Claimed by Krybit · listed 4 days ago

3d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 1, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Krybit
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Sep 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

HCCD is an Egyptian state-owned public holding company founded in 1960 and formalized under Egyptian Law 203 of 1991, operating under supervision of the Ministry of Public Business Sector. It is a leading construction and building company in Egypt with 10 subsidiary companies spanning contracting, housing, engineering, and electricity sectors, plus interests in joint ventures across the Arab world and Africa.

Industry
Construction & Development; Holding Company
Address
Arab Organization Headquarters Building, Cairo, Egypt
Founded
1960

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data publication by ransomware group targeting a large state-owned enterprise with regional significance; however, no specific inventory of exfiltrated data types is disclosed in the leak post, and no proof files or screenshots are referenced.

Krybit claims to have compromised HCCD and published exfiltrated data. The leak post provides company background and contact details but contains no specific statement of what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or the nature of operational impact.

medium

What the group claims

The Holding Company for Construction and Development (HCCD) is an Egyptian public holding company (Egyptian Holding Stoc...

The leak post

captured from the group's site
The Holding Company for Construction and Development (HCCD) — الشركة القابضة للتشييد والتعمير — is an Egyptian public holding company (Egyptian Holding Stock Co.) operating under Law 203 of 1991, under the supervision of the Egyptian Ministry of Public Business Sector. HCCD is considered one of the leading companies in the construction and building industry in Egypt, active since 1960 under different names according to legal regulations. The company owns 10 subsidiary companies categorized as: 5 contracting companies; 1 company for designs and engineering consultations; 3 housing companies; and 1 electricity company. HCCD and its subsidiaries are also shareholders in several joint venture companies. The company's vision is to realize integration in order to achieve sustainable development in the construction industry in the Arab world and Africa.
Arab Organization Headquarters Building, Cairo, Egypt
EMAIL (Board of Directors): [email protected]
Founded: 1960 (formalized under Law 203 in 1991)
Type: Egyptian Public Holding Company (State-owned)
Supervising Ministry: Ministry of Public Business Sector, Egypt
Subsidiaries: 10 companies (contracting, housing, electricity, engi…

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 days ago

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Disclosure context

About krybit

Krybit is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their limited documented attacks against diverse sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public intelligence, and it is unknown whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. With only four known victims documented across geographically diverse regions including Mexico, Austria, Japan, and Botswana, the group appears to employ broad targeting rather than focused regional or sector-specific campaigns, though their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and data exfiltration practices have not been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly reported, and no law enforcement actions against the group have been documented. Given the recent emergence of this group and extremely limited public reporting, Krybit's current operational status and capabilities remain largely unknown to the broader cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 134 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 3, 2026; most recent post September 3, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 1, 2026hccd-construction.com listed by krybiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by krybit

krybit has been linked to 134 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,695 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, hccd-construction.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by krybit means hccd-construction.com 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on krybit'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.