Doha British School
Attack Intelligence
Doha British School was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to qilin in October 2025. The organization, operating in the Education sector in QA, 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.
Doha British School, Qatar - is one of the leading British international schools in Qatar, operating in the country since 1997. After 28 years, DBS has grown into a group of three outstanding campuses offering the English National Curriculum ...
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.