Was everelgroup.com hit by ransomware?

everelgroup.com was listed by the Cactus 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 Cactus ransomware group?

Cactus 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 everelgroup.com breach?

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

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Everel Group

listed as everelgroup.com · Claimed by Cactus · listed 1 year ago

$259M

Ransom

demanded

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 24, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Cactus
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Feb 24, 2025
Ransom demanded: $259M
Estimated revenue: $259M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Everel Group is an Italian manufacturer of electromechanical and electronic components founded in 1903, headquartered in Valeggio sul Mincio, Veneto. The company produces over 100 million components annually for household appliances, automotive, HVAC, healthcare, and gardening sectors, with 650 employees worldwide and €259M in annual revenue.

Industry: Electromechanical Components Manufacturing
Address: 9 Via Cavour, Valeggio sul Mincio, Veneto, 37067, Italy
Employees: 650
Founded: 1903

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of PII at scale (employee passports, ID cards, personal documents), financial records, payroll data, and proprietary engineering/business documents. Large multinational manufacturer with significant operational and reputational impact.

Cactus ransomware group claims to have encrypted Everel's systems and exfiltrated sensitive data. The group has published proof files including personal identification documents, financial records, contracts, engineering drawings, and corporate correspondence.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personal identifiable information (passports, ID cards)
Database backups
Corporate confidential documents
Engineering drawings and technical specifications
Contracts and agreements
Financial documents and payroll records
Employee personal documents
Corporate correspondence
Operational data
Project files

The group's post references roughly 5 proof files.

What the group claims

Appliances. “Everel is a leader in the production and supply of electromechanical parts for the most celebrated household electrical appliance manufacturers and for the principal automobile producers.” Website: <a href="https://www.everelgroup.com/">https://www.everelgroup.com/</a> Revenue : $259M Address: 9 Via Cavour, Valeggio sul Mincio, Veneto, 37067, Italy Phone Number: +39 456313711 Download link #1: <a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/EVERELGROUP/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/EVERELGROUP/PROOF/</a> Mirror: <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/EVERELGROUP/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/EVERELGROUP/PROOF/</a> DATA DESCRIPTIONS: Personal Identifiable information, database backups, corporate confidential documents, projects, contracts, engineering documents\drawings, operations data, financial documents\payroll, employees personal docs, corporate correspondence, etc.<img src="/uploads/8d_passaporto_Ioan_Gornic_Schrob_635a4e77f5.png" alt="8d_passaporto Ioan Gornic Schrob.png"><img src="/uploads/5_CI_Francesca_Castelletti_fc4c0e816d.png" alt="5_CI Francesca Castelletti.png"><img src="/uploads/ZORDST_20240131_143026_6e526679f7.png" alt="ZORDST_20240131_143026.png"><img src="/uploads/Budget_2025_DRAFT_vers_2_e00997ee44.png" alt="Budget 2025 - DRAFT_vers 2.png"><img src="/uploads/Contract_de_confidentialitate_153_10_04_2023_21a7d6db52.png" alt="Contract-de-confidentialitate-153-10.04.2023.png">

Sources

Victim siteeverelgroup.com
Leak posthttps://cactusbloguuodvqjmnzlwetjlpj6aggc6iocwhuupb47laukux7ckid.onion/posts/EVERELGROUP

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Cactus

**Overview:** Cactus is a ransomware group that emerged in July 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid expansion, compromising 552 known victims within its first year of operation. **Origin & Affiliation:** Limited public information exists regarding Cactus's country of origin or specific affiliations with other ransomware groups, though their targeting patterns and operational methods suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. **Attack Methodology:** Cactus ransomware operators employ double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting victim systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met. The group appears to focus on gaining initial access through common vectors such as compromised credentials and vulnerable internet-facing applications, followed by lateral movement and data exfiltration prior to deployment of their encryption payload. **Notable Campaigns:** While specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented by major security agencies, the group's victim count of 552 organizations within approximately one year indicates sustained and aggressive targeting campaigns across North America and Europe. Their focus on manufacturing and business services sectors suggests deliberate targeting of organizations likely to pay ransoms due to operational dependencies. **Current Status:** Cactus remains an active ransomware threat as of late 2024, continuing to target organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and European countries with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed dissolution of their operations. The group has been linked to 552 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 20, 2023; most recent post March 21, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 24, 2025everelgroup.com listed by Cactuson the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $259M

Other recent disclosures by Cactus

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, everelgroup.com is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Cactus means everelgroup.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 Cactus'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.