Was Larimart S.P.A hit by ransomware?

Larimart S.P.A was listed by the crypto24 ransomware operation (Italy), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the crypto24 ransomware group?

crypto24 is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Larimart S.P.A breach?

crypto24 published data attributed to Larimart S.P.A (~2 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Larimart S.P.A

Claimed by Crypto24 · listed 1 year ago

2 TB

Data size

12m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 16, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Crypto24
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Listed on leak site: Jul 16, 2025
Data size: 2 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Larimart S.P.A. is an Italian defence electronics and personal protection manufacturer controlled by Leonardo S.p.A. The company specializes in command & control (C3) systems, soldier equipment, tactical vehicle electronics, and critical infrastructure communications for defence, security, and emergency sectors.

Industry: Defence Electronics & Personal Protection Systems

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of NATO-linked defence specifications, weapon system designs, export-controlled materials, and government customer data with direct national security implications.

The crypto24 group claims exfiltration of 2 TB of confidential data including NATO-linked armor specifications, ballistic protection designs, export control documents, test data, strategic planning documents, MoD invoices, tactical customer lists, and weapon system development records.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

NATO-linked armor specifications
Ballistic protection designs
EUC/EUS certificates
UAMA export control documents
VTLM test data and field performance results
Strategic planning documents
Internal pricing
MoD invoices
Tactical customer lists
Confidential consortium contracts
Weapon system development records

What the group claims

We have secured 2TB of confidential data : NATO-linked armor specifications and ballistic protection designs,EUC/EUS certificates and UAMA export control documents,VTLM test data and confidential field performance results from Santa Severa,Strategic planning documents, internal pricing, MoD, invoices and tactical customer lists,Archives of confidential consortium contracts and weapon system development records.

Sources

Victim sitelarimart.it

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About crypto24

Crypto24 is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2025, with a primary financial motivation evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple geographic regions. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting pattern suggests either independent operations or a new ransomware-as-a-service offering given the diverse geographic spread of their 43 documented victims. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not yet been thoroughly documented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of technology, financial services, healthcare, and business services sectors indicates they likely employ common initial access vectors such as phishing or exploitation of public-facing applications to gain entry into victim networks. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in the United States while also conducting operations across Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, as well as extending their reach to Egypt, suggesting either a globally distributed affiliate network or opportunistic targeting based on vulnerable infrastructure discovery. Crypto24 remains active as of the latest available intelligence reporting, though given their recent emergence, comprehensive details about their specific tactics, techniques, and procedures await further analysis by established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 16, 2025Larimart S.P.A listed by crypto24on the group's public leak site

Data size: 2 TB

Other recent disclosures by crypto24

crypto24 has been linked to 49 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full crypto24 dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Larimart S.P.A is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by crypto24 means Larimart S.P.A 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 crypto24'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.