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Tèrra Aventura

Claimed by Nova · listed 8 days ago

8d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 21, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
Portugal
Listed on leak site
Jul 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Tèrra Aventura is a free, app-based outdoor treasure hunt platform operating in France's Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Players engage in riddle-solving, walking routes, and geocache discovery while exploring local heritage and natural attractions.

Industry
Hospitality and Tourism / Outdoor Recreation

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files publicly displayed, no specific data types disclosed, no operational impact confirmed, and only an announcement with conditional proof availability.

The Nova ransomware group claims to have compromised Tèrra Aventura and exfiltrated data. The group indicates proof files exist but will only be shared upon contact through recovery channels.

low

What the group claims

Tèrra Aventura is a free, app-based outdoor treasure hunt in France's Nouvelle-Aquitaine region where players solve riddles, follow walking routes, and find hidden geocaches while exploring local heritage and nature - Nova Provide Tree and samples and proofs only when company get in touch with support department in channels provided in recovery file.

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 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 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

  • July 21, 2026Tèrra Aventura listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 452 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Tèrra Aventura is reported in Portugal, a country with 8 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Tèrra Aventura 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.PT (Portugal), 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.