Disclosure context

About hive

Hive is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, operating as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model to maximize their criminal enterprise's reach and profitability. The group is suspected to have origins in Eastern Europe based on their operational patterns and linguistic indicators, though definitive attribution remains unclear, and they operate independently while recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks on their behalf. Hive primarily gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities in public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses a combination of RSA and AES encryption algorithms while simultaneously exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption to enable double extortion tactics where they threaten to publish stolen information if ransom demands are not met. The group has targeted over 208 victims globally with a particular focus on manufacturing companies, business services, information technology firms, healthcare services, and internet and telecommunication services, primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Indonesia, and China, including notable attacks against healthcare systems and critical infrastructure that drew significant attention from law enforcement agencies. In January 2023, the FBI announced the successful disruption of Hive's operations, seizing their dark web leak sites and decryption keys, effectively dismantling the group's infrastructure and providing free decryption tools to victims. The group has been linked to 208 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 14, 2021; most recent post January 16, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 30, 2022Camst Group listed by hiveon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality sector. Geographically, Camst Group is reported in Italy, a country with 496 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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Camst Group

Claimed by hive · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 30, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: hive
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Hospitality
Listed on leak site: Dec 30, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Camst Group is an Italian cooperative company headquartered in Bologna, Italy, specialising in collective catering and restaurant services. It provides catering and banqueting, restaurant and bar management, event/fair catering, and institutional collective catering across Italy. The group is one of Italy's largest foodservice cooperatives, serving schools, hospitals, businesses, and public venues.

Industry: Catering & Collective Foodservice
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1945

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by Hive, indicating successful exfiltration from a large-scale foodservice cooperative likely holding employee PII, financial records, and client data across multiple institutional contracts.

The Hive ransomware group claims to have attacked Camst Group and has published data ('data_published' status), indicating exfiltration of company data, though the specific data types and volume are not detailed in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business operational data
Employee records
Financial documents
Client/contract information

What the group claims

Camst Group is a company that specializes in restaurant services. It offers catering & banqueting, restaurant & bars, catering at the fair, and collective cater.

Sources

Victim sitecamstgroup.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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