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Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Fortaleza

listed as Saude Fortaleza · 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
Brazil
Listed on leak site
Nov 15, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Fortaleza is the municipal health secretariat of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, responsible for administering and coordinating public health services for the city. It operates under the municipal government and oversees health policy, programs, and facilities for the population of Fortaleza. The organization is estimated to have revenues of $10M–$25M.

Industry
Municipal Government Health Services
Address
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Employees
20-49

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a municipal public health authority in Brazil, making it highly likely that sensitive PII and health-related data of citizens is involved. The disclosed status is 'data_published', meaning data has already been released, raising the severity to critical given the government/healthcare context and potential for regulated personal and medical data exposure at scale.

The Nova ransomware group claims to have attacked the Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Fortaleza, with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. No specific details on encryption or the volume of exfiltrated data were provided in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government health administration records
  • Potentially citizen/patient data
  • Internal IT and operational data

What the group claims

Secretaria Municipal de Saude de Fortaleza is a company that operates in the Custom Software & IT Services industry. It employs 20 to 49 people and has 10M to 25M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Brazil. https://saude.fortaleza.ce.gov.br/ https://www.zoominfo.com/c/secretaria-municipal-de-sau%CC%81de-de-fortaleza/431949261

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, 2025Saude Fortaleza 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

Geographically, Saude Fortaleza is reported in Brazil, a country with 404 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Saude Fortaleza 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT.br (Brazil), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • 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.