Disclosure context

About apt73

APT73 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in April 2024, with financial motivation as their primary driver based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid growth in their operational tempo, accumulating 78 documented victims within their first months of activity. Their targeting methodology shows a preference for English-speaking markets and major economies, with the United Kingdom and United States representing their primary focus areas, followed by significant activity in India, Brazil, and France. The group exhibits a clear preference for high-value sectors including business services, technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations, suggesting a calculated approach to victim selection based on potential payment capability and operational impact. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, or organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group's current operational status appears active based on the timeline of their emergence, though comprehensive analysis of their capabilities and infrastructure requires additional intelligence gathering and documentation by security researchers. The group has been linked to 141 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 22, 2024; most recent post April 27, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Eraleign.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 27, 2026netromsoftware.ro listed by apt73on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, netromsoftware.ro is reported in RO, a country with 10 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.

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NetRom Software

listed as netromsoftware.ro · Claimed by apt73 · listed 23 days ago

23d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: apt73
Status: Data leaked
Country: RO
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Apr 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NetRom Software is a Romanian full-service IT company founded in 1998, headquartered in Oltenia with an additional office in Timișoara. The company employs over 400 professionals and offers software design, full-stack development, quality assurance, and DevOps services across more than 10 industry domains, positioning itself as the largest nearshore software company in Oltenia.

Industry: Nearshore Software Development & IT Consulting
Employees: 400+
Founded: 1998

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published (exfiltration confirmed), but the only specifically described data is a CRM export; no evidence of large-scale regulated PII, medical, or financial data is mentioned, and no operational disruption to critical infrastructure is claimed.

The ransomware group APT73 claims to have exfiltrated data from NetRom Software, including CRM export data, and has published the data as disclosed. No ransom amount or data size was stated.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

CRM export data

What the group claims

Romanian software development company. Export CRM

Sources

Victim sitenetromsoftware.ro
Leak posthttp://basherq53eniermxovo3bkduw5qqq5bkqcml3qictfmamgvmzovykyqd.onion/page_company.php?id=88

Source

Indexed 23 days ago

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