Was INGV hit by ransomware?

INGV was listed by the Fog 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 Fog ransomware group?

Fog 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 INGV breach?

Fog published data attributed to INGV. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

listed as INGV · Claimed by Fog · listed 1 year ago

17m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 12, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Fog
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Listed on leak site: Feb 12, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

INGV is an Italian national research institution specializing in geophysics and volcanology. It conducts research and monitoring of seismic and volcanic activities, operates multiple observatories and monitoring networks, and publishes scientific journals and research products related to Earth sciences.

Industry: Scientific Research & Geophysics

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Government-affiliated research institution with confirmed data exfiltration and publication. No specific evidence of personal data at scale, but institutional and scientific data breach of a public entity conducting critical earthquake/volcano monitoring.

The Fog group claims to have accessed INGV systems and exfiltrated data. The leak post indicates data publication but provides no specific detail on the nature or scope of exfiltrated material or operational impact.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Research databases
Monitoring records
Scientific archives
Internal documentation

What the group claims

Extract from Gitlabs: INGV, Spacemanic, Squeezer-software - The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) is an Italian research institution specializing in geophysics and volcanology, focusing on monitoring and studying seismic and volcanic activities.

Sources

Victim siteingv.it

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Fog

Fog is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as part of an established Ransomware-as-a-Service ecosystem. Given the limited public documentation from major security agencies and researchers due to the group's recent appearance, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence firms. The group has reportedly victimized 189 organizations primarily across the United States, Germany, France, Australia, and Brazil, with their attacks predominantly targeting the technology sector, followed by education, business services, and manufacturing industries, though no specific high-profile campaigns or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security researchers at this time. As of current reporting, Fog appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim acquisition patterns observed throughout 2024. The group has been linked to 189 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 16, 2024; most recent post March 20, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 12, 2025INGV listed by Fogon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Fog

Fog has been linked to 189 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, INGV is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Fog means INGV 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 Fog'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.