Disclosure context

About crypto24

Crypto24 is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2025, with a primary financial motivation evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple geographic regions. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting pattern suggests either independent operations or a new ransomware-as-a-service offering given the diverse geographic spread of their 43 documented victims. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not yet been thoroughly documented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of technology, financial services, healthcare, and business services sectors indicates they likely employ common initial access vectors such as phishing or exploitation of public-facing applications to gain entry into victim networks. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in the United States while also conducting operations across Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, as well as extending their reach to Egypt, suggesting either a globally distributed affiliate network or opportunistic targeting based on vulnerable infrastructure discovery. Crypto24 remains active as of the latest available intelligence reporting, though given their recent emergence, comprehensive details about their specific tactics, techniques, and procedures await further analysis by established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 18, 2025Generali Group listed by crypto24on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Generali 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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Generali Group

Claimed by crypto24 · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 18, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: crypto24
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 18, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Generali Group is one of the largest global insurance and asset management providers, headquartered in Trieste, Italy. The group offers life insurance, property and casualty insurance, asset management, and wealth management services across numerous countries worldwide. With over 190 years of history, it operates under the strategic plan 'Lifetime Partner 27: Driving Excellence'.

Industry: Insurance & Asset Management
Address: Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi 2, 34132 Trieste, Italy
Employees: 85000
Founded: 1831

Attack summary

Severity: high — Generali Group is a major global insurer handling sensitive financial and personal data for millions of policyholders. The 'data_published' status indicates exfiltration and release of data rather than a mere listing, which at an institution of this scale and regulatory sensitivity warrants a high severity rating. Insufficient proof detail prevents elevation to critical.

The group crypto24 claims to have attacked Generali Group, with the disclosure status listed as data_published. The leak post content is not detailed, but the disclosed status indicates data has been published; no specific data volume or ransom amount was stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unknown — leak post content unavailable

What the group claims

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Sources

Victim sitewww.generali.com

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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