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Stark Shipping

Claimed by Nova · listed 8 months ago

8m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 15, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
Ukraine
Sector
Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site
Nov 15, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Stark Shipping is a Ukrainian maritime service provider specializing in operations across the Black and Azov seas. The company offers port agency services, cargo chartering for bulk and liquid goods, and market analysis. It maintains a network of offices and strategic partnerships across Ukrainian ports.

Industry
Maritime Shipping & Port Agency Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) by the threat actor, confirming exfiltration of business operational data from a logistics/maritime company operating in a geopolitically sensitive region (Ukraine, Black and Azov seas). While no regulated PII at scale is explicitly mentioned, the confirmed publication of exfiltrated business data from a strategically relevant maritime operator warrants a high severity rating.

The Nova ransomware group claims to have published data belonging to Stark Shipping, indicating exfiltration has occurred and data has been disclosed. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Port agency records
  • Cargo chartering documents
  • Market analysis reports
  • Business correspondence
  • Client/partner information

What the group claims

Ukraine A maritime service provider with extensive experience in the Black and Azov seas. Offers port agency services, cargo chartering (for bulk and liquid goods), and market analysis for customers. Has a network of offices and strategic partnerships in Ukrainian ports.

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 months 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 183 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 15, 2025Stark Shipping listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 183 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Stark Shipping is reported in Ukraine.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Stark Shipping 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.