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NSW Rural Fire Service

Claimed by Nova · listed 7 days ago

7d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 26, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
Australia
Sector
Public Sector
Listed on leak site
Jun 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NSW Rural Fire Service is the primary emergency response agency for bushfires and other emergencies across New South Wales, Australia. A government organisation responsible for fire management, hazard reduction, and emergency response across the state.

Industry
Public Sector - Emergency Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Attack on critical infrastructure (emergency services) with confirmed data exfiltration by a ransomware operator. Government agency data breaches carry inherent sensitivity; operational disruption to emergency services poses public safety risk. However, lack of proof publication and minimal disclosure details prevent 'critical' classification.

Nova claims to have exfiltrated data from NSW RFS. The post is minimal and provides no specific details about what data was taken or the scope of the breach.

high

What the group claims

Data Leaked, Updated from Nova Team by investigate Affiliate provided informations.

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 days 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 182 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post June 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 26, 2026NSW Rural Fire Service listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 182 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 Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, NSW Rural Fire Service is reported in Australia, a country with 185 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means NSW Rural Fire Service 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, ACSC (Australia), 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.