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Universidade Municipal de São Caetano

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Nov 24, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Universidade Municipal de São Caetano

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Medusa on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: EducationDiscovered: 2025-11-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

USCS offers a diverse range of educational programs including in-person and distance learning undergraduate degrees, technical courses, and postgraduate studies such as MBAs and doctorates. The university also provides non-degree courses aimed at skill enhancement and is equipped with facilities for secondary education. Services include free legal assistance, fiscal education, and health services, catering to both students and the community. With a focus on quality and flexibility, USCS serves a wide array of clients including students at various academic levels and professionals seeking further education. company is headquartered in Rua Santo Antônio, 50 – Centro, São Caetano do Sul, SP, CEP 09521-160. 501-1,000 Employees,

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Nov 24, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

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  • victim claim
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  • materiality
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-01-11

medusa

According to ransomware.live, Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service operation active since June 2021 that has targeted over 300 victims across critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, legal, and manufacturing using double-extortion, with attacks surging 42% between 2023 and 2024 and a formal CISA advisory issued in early 2025.

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