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ELC Electroconsult SpA

Claimed by Everest · listed 7 months ago

7m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 16, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Everest
Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Dec 16, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ELC Electroconsult SpA is an Italian engineering consulting firm headquartered in Milan, specialising in the design and supervision of large-scale infrastructure projects including hydroelectric power plants, transmission lines, and energy facilities. The company operates internationally, providing engineering services across power generation, electromechanical systems, and civil infrastructure. It has decades of experience working on projects in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Industry
Engineering & Infrastructure Consulting (Power & Energy)
Address
Via Pasubio 5, 20154 Milan, Italy
Employees
201-500
Founded
1958

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosure status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration has occurred at an established engineering consultancy handling sensitive infrastructure projects; published data from a firm involved in critical energy and power infrastructure represents significant business and potentially national-security-adjacent exposure.

The Everest ransomware group claims to have compromised ELC Electroconsult SpA and has published data, indicating exfiltration has occurred; however, the leak post excerpt provides minimal detail on the nature or volume of the stolen data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Engineering project files
  • Corporate documents
  • Employee records
  • Client contracts
  • Financial records

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

ELC Electroconsult SpA is an Italy-based engineering firm operating globally. It specializes in developing large infrastructure and engineering projects, including design and consultancy for hydroelectric power, renewable energy, and dams. Over years, it has gained extensive project development experience in various environments, combining technological innovation with sustainable development.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Sources

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Everest

Everest is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, operating with a focus on profit-driven extortion campaigns against organizations primarily in the United States and Europe. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation exists regarding Everest's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their victim profile indicates they employ standard ransomware tactics targeting a diverse range of sectors including healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. Since their emergence, Everest has claimed responsibility for attacks against 339 victims across multiple countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Spain representing their primary geographic targets, though no specific high-profile incidents or major ransoms have been publicly documented by law enforcement or major security firms. As of current reporting, Everest appears to remain an active threat actor, though the limited public intelligence available suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent and well-documented criminal organizations. The group has been linked to 369 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post May 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 16, 2025ELC Electroconsult SpA listed by Evereston the group's public leak site

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ELC Electroconsult SpA is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Everest means ELC Electroconsult SpA 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Everest'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.