SingularityMD
- Primary motivation
- financial-gain
- Sophistication
- intermediate
- Resource level
- team
- Actor type
- criminal
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:08:09
Targeted industries: education-and-nonprofits
Targeted regions: country_code:us
Context
SingularityMD is a threat actor group that has targeted educational institutions in the US. They gained unauthorized access to their networks by exploiting weak security practices, such as using students' dates of birth as passwords. SingularityMD demanded a ransom in cryptocurrency and threatened to leak stolen information if not paid. They have demonstrated a willingness to follow through on their threats and have already leaked some data.
Reports & references
- databreaches.net — Jeffco Public Schools Hit By The Same Threat Actors That Hit Clark County School District And Via The Same Way (report)
- research.checkpoint.com — 30Th October Threat Intelligence Report (report)
- databreaches.net — Hackers Escalate Leak 200K Ccsd Students Data Claim To Still Have Access To Ccsd Email System (report)