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UK Department for Education

education.gov.uk

Group Exfilsquad New Group
Discovered 2026-07-26 10:22 UTC
Est. attack date 2026-07-26
Country GB
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production Education Energy & Utilities Financial Services Government & Defense Healthcare Hospitality Manufacturing Other Professional Services Retail & E-Commerce Technology Transportation
This is an emerging group, so this claim should be treated with caution until independently verified.

Description:

DATA SUMMARY: Help Portal (~600K records) – Parent and staff contact records containing full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and job titles. Turing Portal (~7K records) – Contact records containing full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and job titles.

Infostealer activity detected by HudsonRock

Compromised Employees: 0

Compromised Users: 1165

Third Party Employee Credentials: 18


External Attack Surface: 100


DNS Records:

The following DNS records were found for the victim's domain.

WHOIS Emails
  • No emails found.
MX Records
  • education-gov-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com. Microsoft 365
TXT Records
  • d365mktkey=6vp6ooc2cmmg8jx89echviv81
  • d365mktkey=3963n96it9bdholqd9qxotwff
  • 9hbrq052ndr46fb10qxs14zjrr0rk79p
  • google-site-verification=s38dbABzSS28qQiC7MWyb5lvFICJI_8Q5nHdmhxhTYc
  • MS=ms47410239
  • kxz9mkjwl04tzfdj6zwslq6grvmvqvg8
  • v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.firmstep.com include:eur.pb-dynmktge.com include:mktomail.com a:outbound13.service-now.com a:o1.em.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk" " ip4:51.219.200.136 ip4:50.31.56.119 ip4:51.140.231.73 ip4:185.112.98.133 ip4:185.112.99.133 ip4:85.115.60.190 ip4:205.201.128.0/20 ip4:198.2.128.0/18 ip4:148.105.0.0/16 ip4:129.41.167.7 ip4:40.67.217.228 ip4:148.139.2.0/24 ip4:148.139.3.2 ~all
  • MS=ms60889213
  • v0gA9kvBjEXU6zXZUjLk5mo4moTPxbSz9YmZP3YF6xSMC9alcACriCI+aGAPqiagquH+imZFR/4GazzjZuPsxg==
  • d365mktkey=5hir4pd1vh6n01lo8zztcti4e
  • _globalsign-domain-verification=GwGHWo1dNAn5vtJ1lQy5fiX5r3rdCGwhA2c_Ud4XG_
  • zCyBuNNunwnahMBszs1/W/0k99Lc/qmclgwtgChr3Zo=
  • PxfMObkNzBh51wGEik4Q4LASWuo8FU2+FZdw/b7qqx8=
  • d365mktkey=76cttecsxz16vhyke22te8krr
  • Rm7HcJZ4YVqJlAiq7raaxBzfonAztuZ+Zz75TQc5VD0=
  • d365mktkey=4MoxXlgBSjRxLR7UE2BHIVOFgGar2MbMq8gBotT6phEx
Cloud / SaaS Services Detected
Global Sign Marketo Microsoft 365