Was esaote.com hit by ransomware?

esaote.com was listed by the babuk2 ransomware operation (Italy), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the babuk2 ransomware group?

babuk2 is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the esaote.com breach?

babuk2 published data attributed to esaote.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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esaote.com

Claimed by Babuk2 · listed 1 year ago

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 18, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Babuk2
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Mar 18, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Esaote is a global manufacturer of medical diagnostic imaging equipment, specializing in ultrasound and MRI systems for clinical applications across radiology, cardiology, orthopedics, and other specialties. The company also develops healthcare IT software solutions including PACS, RIS, and enterprise imaging platforms for hospitals and diagnostic centers.

Industry: Medical Diagnostic Imaging & Healthcare IT

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Healthcare sector victim with confirmed data publication by ransomware group; however, the leak post is minimal and provides no details about data scope, sensitivity, or proof artifacts. Given the company's role in medical imaging and IT infrastructure serving hospitals, the potential exposure is significant even without explicit proof details.

The Babuk2 group claims to have compromised Esaote and published data. No specific details are provided about the nature of the breach (encryption vs. exfiltration) or the data categories involved.

medium

What the group claims

esaote.com

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About babuk2

Babuk2 appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in January 2025, representing either a new variant or successor to the original Babuk ransomware group, with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple sectors and geographic regions. Given the limited timeframe since their emergence and the naming convention, this group likely operates independently or represents a rebrand/evolution of previous Babuk operations, though definitive attribution remains unclear due to the recency of their activities. Based on their targeting patterns across diverse sectors including public sector entities, technology companies, healthcare organizations, and manufacturing firms, the group appears to employ broad-spectrum attack methodologies typical of modern ransomware operations, though specific technical details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not yet been extensively documented by major security researchers. With 180 documented victims across multiple countries including significant activity in the United States, Brazil, India, Indonesia, and China within just the first month of 2025, Babuk2 has demonstrated a notably aggressive operational tempo, though specific high-profile incidents or ransom demands have not yet been publicly detailed by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. The group appears to remain actively operational as of early 2025, though their recent emergence means long-term operational patterns and potential law enforcement responses are still developing. The group has been linked to 180 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 27, 2025; most recent post April 23, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 18, 2025esaote.com listed by babuk2on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by babuk2

babuk2 has been linked to 180 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, esaote.com is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by babuk2 means esaote.com 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 babuk2'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.