Ministry of Foreign Trade " STORMOUS + GhostSec "
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Full breach record for Ministry of Foreign Trade " STORMOUS + GhostSec " →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Stormous 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
It is the body of the Central State Administration in charge of proposing, and once approved, directing, executing and controlling State and Government policies in matters of foreign trade, foreign investment and international economic collaboration
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Jul 12, 2023
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
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Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
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stormous
According to ransomware.live, Stormous is an Arabic-speaking, pro-Russian ransomware and hacktivist group active since at least 2022, known for politically motivated attacks across 15+ countries, collaborating with GhostSec on the GhostLocker 2.0 RaaS platform and inheriting GhostSec's RaaS operations in mid-2024.