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Centrul de Tehnologii Informaționale în Finanțe (CTIF)

Q: What data was leaked in the Center Of Information Technologies In Finance Public Institution breach?

nova published data attributed to Center Of Information Technologies In Finance Public Institution. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

listed as Center Of Information Technologies In Finance Public Institution · Claimed by Nova · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 24, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Nova
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 24, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CTIF is a Romanian public institution that manages and operates automated information systems for government finance, accounting, taxation, customs, and public procurement. It provides IT infrastructure services to public authorities, budget institutions, and economic agents, as well as professional training in public procurement.

Industry: Financial Services & Government IT Infrastructure

Attack summary

Severity: critical — CTIF is a critical government IT infrastructure provider handling regulated financial, tax, customs, and procurement data for Romanian public authorities. Exfiltration from such an institution affects state financial systems and sensitive government operations at scale.

Nova group claims to have exfiltrated data from CTIF's systems. The group states it has obtained sensitive information and offers to provide samples to the victim organization via their support department.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government financial systems data
Accounting records
Tax administration data
Customs information
Public procurement records
Information technology infrastructure configurations

What the group claims

Centrul de Tehnologii Informaționale în Finanțe (CTIF) offers a wide range of services and products aimed at legal entities such as public authorities, budget institutions, and economic agents, as well as individuals interested in financial information technology. Their services primarily focus on the management, development, and operation of automated information systems in public finance, accounting, taxation, customs, and public procurement. CTIF also provides training courses for professionals in the field of public procurement. The center is committed to transparency and communication with its clients - Data officially taken from Minister Private Information Cloud, Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.

Sources

Leak posthttp://pifk3xu3vad6cuxsjll4qjomyaaaoyvnyqppro75pazadzctrrvpdnyd.onion/center-of-information-technologies-in-finance-public-institution

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About nova

Based on the limited available data, Nova is a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in April 2025 with an apparent financial motivation, having targeted approximately 95 victims in its brief operational period. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented by major security firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than geopolitically motivated attacks. Nova's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been publicly detailed by established threat intelligence sources, though their victim distribution across the United States, France, Brazil, Singapore, and the Netherlands indicates either automated widespread targeting or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and education sectors, suggesting they may focus on organizations with critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major security researchers, Nova's current operational status, organizational structure, and long-term threat trajectory remain largely uncharacterized in established threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 203 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 24, 2026Center Of Information Technologies In Finance Public Institution listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 203 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,192 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Center Of Information Technologies In Finance Public Institution appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Monitor for the data appearing on nova's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.