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SIT Group / Robusta

Claimed by Bavacai · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 5, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Bavacai
Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
May 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SIT Group is an Italian company operating under the domain sitgroup.it, active in the business services sector. The leak post also associates it with Robusta, a Bulgarian entity (robusta.bg), suggesting a cross-border operational or corporate relationship. No further verifiable details about their specific services or scale are available from the provided sources.

Industry
Business Services

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) indicating confirmed exfiltration, but the post provides very limited detail on the nature, volume, or sensitivity of the data; no regulated PII at scale, medical, financial, or government data is confirmed.

The Bavacai ransomware group claims to have compromised SIT Group and its associated Bulgarian entity Robusta, with data published including what appears to be email account data from the abv.bg domain. The disclosed status indicates data has been published, though no specific data volume or encryption claim is detailed in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Email accounts (abv.bg)
  • Corporate data from SIT Group
  • Corporate data from Robusta (Bulgaria)

What the group claims

Italian company SIT Group (sitgroup.it) and Bulgarian Robusta (robusta.bg). Also abv.bg emails.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
File Manager File Manager home page BARAAAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAPAMAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAUARAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAVADAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAVACAI Data is being prepared for publication. BAVAQAI Data is being prepared for publication. Raycolighting DEMO 3137 S Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90058, USA $10 000 Organization with 2 emails extracted. Domain: raycolighting.com baralai Data is being prepared for publication. CEAGESP / Netfeirasp DEMO São Paulo, Brazil $20 000 Brazilian produce wholesale market network. Domain netfeirasp.ceagesp (CEAGESP). Also demarchibrasil.com.br accounts. Colegio María Inmaculada (CMI) DEMO Moravia, San José, Costa Rica $50000 Catholic school in Moravia, Costa Rica. Domain cmi.local / mariainmaculada.ed.cr. Servers: CMI-DC01, CMI-APP, CMI-HTTP2, main-server1/2. Académie de Montpellier / CSJM DEMO Béziers, Occitanie, France $15000 French public school network. Domain CSJM.BEZIERS, part of Académie de Montpellier (ac-montpellier.fr). Occitanie region (laregion.fr). Teacher and admin staff credentials. Palmers Relocations DEMO Victoria, Australia $63 000 Australian …

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Bavacai

Based on the limited publicly available information, Bavacai is a relatively obscure ransomware operation first observed in May 2026 with primarily financial motivations, having targeted at least 16 known victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to insufficient public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, though their operational model and whether they function as a Ransomware-as-a-Service operation or independent entity has not been definitively established by security researchers. Their attack methodology, specific tools, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports, though their targeting pattern suggests opportunistic victim selection across diverse industries including business services, education, consumer services, and agriculture sectors, with primary focus on victims in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, France, and Israel. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Bavacai have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established cybersecurity firms like Mandiant. Given the recent emergence timeline and limited public intelligence reporting, the group's current operational status remains uncertain with insufficient data to determine whether they remain active or have ceased operations. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 5, 2026SIT Group / Robusta listed by Bavacaion the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Bavacai

Bavacai has been linked to 16 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Bavacai dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, SIT Group / Robusta is reported in Italy, a country with 203 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Bavacai means SIT Group / Robusta 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 Bavacai'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.