Real Estate — Cyber Threat Activity

Real estate holds two recorded incidents in our log, attributed to Akira and Play, with two further groups carrying a researched association: World Leaks and Gunra. This is the thinnest sector page in the dataset and should be read as such. The scarcity is a classification artefact rather than evidence of safety, since agencies, brokerages, property managers and construction-adjacent developers are routinely recorded under business services or construction in our corpus. The sector's genuine exposure is concentrated in two places. The first is transaction fraud: property purchases move large sums between parties who have often never met, on deadlines, coordinated by email between agents, conveyancers, lenders and title companies, which is the ideal setting for business email compromise and diverted completion payments. That fraud produces financial loss without any encryption event, so it rarely reaches a leak site or an incident log at all. The second is data. Property firms hold identity documents, bank details, credit assessments and residential histories for every buyer and tenant they process, and property management platforms concentrate that across large portfolios. Building systems add a third, quieter dimension, with access control, HVAC and surveillance increasingly networked and rarely maintained by anyone with a security remit. Read the two recorded incidents as the floor of the sector's activity, not a measure of it, and the actor associations shown as published research rather than attributions we have measured in our own corpus.

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Coverage. 94.7% of incidents in our log carry a sector classification; the remainder name a victim we have not placed in an industry. Counts here are a floor, not a total, and are not comparable between sectors of different sizes.

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