Was Adriatic Port Authority hit by ransomware?

Adriatic Port Authority was listed by the anubis 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 anubis ransomware group?

anubis 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 Adriatic Port Authority breach?

anubis published data attributed to Adriatic Port Authority. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Adriatic Port Authority

Claimed by Anubis · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 14, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Anubis
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Jan 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Adriatic Port Authority is an Italian governmental or quasi-governmental body responsible for the administration, regulation, and management of one or more ports along the Adriatic coast of Italy. Port authorities in Italy oversee maritime traffic, port infrastructure, customs coordination, and logistics operations. The specific port or ports under this authority's jurisdiction cannot be confirmed from the available information.

Industry: Port Authority & Maritime Transportation

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is an Italian port authority — a critical infrastructure entity in the transportation/logistics sector. The disclosed status is 'data_published', confirming actual data exfiltration rather than a mere listing. Port authorities handle sensitive operational, logistical, personnel, and potentially government-classified data. Disruption or exposure of such data poses significant national and economic security implications, warranting a 'high' rating; 'critical' is not assigned due to lack

The Anubis ransomware group claims to have attacked Adriatic Port Authority and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of organizational data, though the leak post provides minimal detail on the nature or volume of the data involved.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unspecified organizational data

What the group claims

www.porto.ancona.it - data breach.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Anubis blog ANUBIS NEWS FAQ ABOUT RULES English English Español Русский 中文 Deutsch Description Micaforce Technology Download

Sources

Leak posthttp://om6q4a6cyipxvt7ioudxt24cw4oqu4yodmqzl25mqd2hgllymrgu4aqd.onion/r/6Lvh9+A6+GyNby820TQPM3sCJMx54PPxhBeEcYN4v4nPXINhsFjCgfNsV1YmHlddli8OKURoCWqUOzFue2g2JaOVNRU2pC

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About anubis

Anubis is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in February 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through encryption and extortion attacks. The group has demonstrated rapid expansion, accumulating 65 documented victims within a short operational timeframe. Given the group's recent emergence, limited information is publicly available regarding their specific country of origin, organizational structure, or confirmed affiliations with other cybercriminal entities, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent group or small-scale ransomware-as-a-service operation. Their attack methodology appears to focus on opportunistic targeting across multiple geographic regions, with victims concentrated primarily in the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France, indicating either English-language proficiency or the use of automated tools that facilitate cross-border operations. The group demonstrates a clear preference for targeting healthcare organizations and manufacturing companies, followed by business services and technology sectors, suggesting they prioritize organizations with critical operational dependencies that may be more likely to pay ransoms quickly. Due to the group's recent emergence in early 2025, there is insufficient publicly documented information from established cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their specific technical capabilities, encryption methods, or whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics involving data theft and leak sites. As of current reporting, Anubis remains an active threat with continued victim acquisition, though the full scope of their capabilities and long-term operational sustainability remains to be determined as security researchers continue to analyze their activities. The group has been linked to 83 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 25, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 14, 2026Adriatic Port Authority listed by anubison the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by anubis

anubis has been linked to 83 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 Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 847 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Adriatic Port Authority is reported in Italy, a country with 496 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by anubis means Adriatic Port Authority 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on anubis'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.