Disclosure context

About anubis

Anubis is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in February 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through encryption and extortion attacks. The group has demonstrated rapid expansion, accumulating 65 documented victims within a short operational timeframe. Given the group's recent emergence, limited information is publicly available regarding their specific country of origin, organizational structure, or confirmed affiliations with other cybercriminal entities, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent group or small-scale ransomware-as-a-service operation. Their attack methodology appears to focus on opportunistic targeting across multiple geographic regions, with victims concentrated primarily in the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France, indicating either English-language proficiency or the use of automated tools that facilitate cross-border operations. The group demonstrates a clear preference for targeting healthcare organizations and manufacturing companies, followed by business services and technology sectors, suggesting they prioritize organizations with critical operational dependencies that may be more likely to pay ransoms quickly. Due to the group's recent emergence in early 2025, there is insufficient publicly documented information from established cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their specific technical capabilities, encryption methods, or whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics involving data theft and leak sites. As of current reporting, Anubis remains an active threat with continued victim acquisition, though the full scope of their capabilities and long-term operational sustainability remains to be determined as security researchers continue to analyze their activities. The group has been linked to 77 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 25, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 13, 2026A.R.Ge.Co listed by anubison the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, A.R.Ge.Co is reported in IT, a country with 195 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

A.R.Ge.Co

Claimed by anubis · listed 8 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 13, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: anubis
Status: Data leaked
Country: IT
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

A.R.Ge.Co is an Italian accounting firm operating in the business services sector. Based on the sector classification and the leak post description, the firm provides accounting and related professional services. No further details about scale or specific location are available from public sources.

Industry: Accounting & Business Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — An accounting firm breach with confirmed data publication strongly implies exposure of sensitive financial and client PII records; the 'data_published' status confirms exfiltration rather than encryption-only.

The Anubis ransomware group claims to have breached A.R.Ge.Co, describing it as an accounting firm data breach; the disclosure status indicates data has been published, suggesting exfiltration of firm data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Accounting firm data

What the group claims

Accounting firm data breach.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Anubis blog ANUBIS NEWS FAQ ABOUT RULES English English Español Русский 中文 Deutsch Download A.R.Ge.Co The subject of today’s article is A.R.Ge.Co , a French company operating in the field of accounting services, serving a wide range of clients from artisans to small and medium-sized businesses. Its role is to bring order to other people’s numbers, and today we will take a look at whether its own numbers are in order. Within this dataset, you will find extensive financial and accounting information concerning both the company itself and its clients. This includes comparative accounting statements, balance sheet reports, information on clients’ pooled accounts, and much more.

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 days 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.