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SECONT (Secretaria de Controle e Transparência)

listed as SECONT · Claimed by Nova · listed 3 months ago

10 GB
Data size
3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 27, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
Brazil
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
May 27, 2026
Data size
10 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SECONT is the central body of the Internal Control System for the State Executive Branch in Brazil. Its primary mission is to ensure that state resources are used in compliance with the law and efficiently.

Industry
Government - Internal Control & Transparency

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Target is a Brazilian government internal control agency with access to sensitive state administrative and financial data. Confirmed exfiltration of call records from a government body constitutes critical infrastructure compromise.

Nova claims to have exfiltrated data from SECONT. The group alleges call records were captured and offers data samples to the organization if they contact the support department.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • call records

What the group claims

Secretaria de Controle e Transparência - the central body of the Internal Control System for the entire State Executive Branch, ensuring state resources are used in compliance with the law and efficiently.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Textile Testing Services of America
Textile Testing Services of America is a company that operates in the Training industry. It employs 250to499 people and has 10Mto25M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico - Correction, After First post about sandox.info was posted by affiliate, after he provide us the Full informations, our Team made the OSINT, and discover that the domain sandox.info was initial access (IP 64.76.20.226), the Full Data is related to ttsamexico.com, Confirmed by Nova OSINT team, published the IP will not effect on company because its already public by ping administracion.ttsamexico.com, about public media don't worry, we will correct any false informations maybe posted by misunderstanding - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department, Nova will oversee the target verification processes for accurate Posts deployment. 
Affiliate Banned, Case closed, Contact us for free data recovery and free report. Reason : the affiliate build for diffrent company, and then posted diffrent company in auto-post blog, Nova has Taking action to ban him, Rules breaking by attacking CI…

Data the group says was taken

  • stolen data

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 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 203 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 27, 2026SECONT listed by novaon the group's public leak site
Data size
10 GB

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 203 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 Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, SECONT is reported in Brazil, a country with 404 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means SECONT 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.