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Gitlabs: Synelixis Solutions, INGV, VMO Holdings

Claimed by Fog · listed 1 year ago

16m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 26, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Fog
Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Feb 26, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

This record conflates multiple distinct entities: GitLab (DevOps platform), Synelixis Solutions (IT hardware/software), INGV (Italian geophysics research institute), and VMO Holdings (private holding company). No coherent company profile can be established.

Attack summary

Severity: low — No credible proof of breach, exfiltration, or operational disruption is presented. The post is generic descriptive text rather than a genuine breach announcement with evidence.

The leak post appears to be AI-generated placeholder text with no substantive claim of attack, data exfiltration, encryption, or operational impact. No specific breach details are provided.

low

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

It seems there is a bit of confusion in the request as GitLab, Synelixis Solutions, INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology), and VMO Holdings appear to be separate entities. GitLab is a web-based DevOps tool that provides a platform for software development and version control. Synelixis Solutions is an IT company specializing in hardware and software solutions. INGV deals with research in geophysics and volcanology. VMO Holdings is a private holding company.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About Fog

Fog is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as part of an established Ransomware-as-a-Service ecosystem. Given the limited public documentation from major security agencies and researchers due to the group's recent appearance, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence firms. The group has reportedly victimized 189 organizations primarily across the United States, Germany, France, Australia, and Brazil, with their attacks predominantly targeting the technology sector, followed by education, business services, and manufacturing industries, though no specific high-profile campaigns or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security researchers at this time. As of current reporting, Fog appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim acquisition patterns observed throughout 2024. The group has been linked to 189 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 16, 2024; most recent post March 20, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 26, 2025Gitlabs: Synelixis Solutions, INGV, VMO Holdings listed by Fogon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Fog

Fog has been linked to 189 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gitlabs: Synelixis Solutions, INGV, VMO Holdings is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Fog means Gitlabs: Synelixis Solutions, INGV, VMO Holdings 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Fog'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.