Madera County Superintendent of Schools

Madera County Superintendent of Schools was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to qilin in December 2025. The organization, operating in the Education sector in United States, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.

qilin operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.

Education

Intelligence correlations link this incident to 1 vulnerability(ies) including CVE-2026-0257, which may have been leveraged as initial access vectors or for lateral movement.