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RAYAB Consulting Engineers

bd_a170f8ca85f16de8 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Feb 22, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for RAYAB Consulting Engineers

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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2023-02-22

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

RAYAB Consulting Engineers Company was founded in 1984. Taking advantage of hundreds of experienced experts’ cooperation , know – how and scientific experiences, the company has studied , designed and supervised, water and water transmission infrastructural projects, consulting and studying services for potable, agricultural and industrial water consumption, urban and industrial water distribution and wastewater collecting and disposal networks, water and wastewater treatment plants, environmental and health services and water resources conservation as large and small projects throughout Iran In addition to offices in Tehran, it has offices in Isfahan , Ghazvin, Takestan, Gorgan, Karaj, Ghom, Kashan, Delijan, Malayer , Ilaam , Ahwaz, Dezful, Babolsar, Bojnourd, Mashhad, Esfarayen, Kashmar, Birjand, Bandarabbas, Sirjan and Sare – Pole – Zahab

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Feb 22, 2023

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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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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