Was IBENA Textilwerke hit by ransomware?

IBENA Textilwerke was listed by the nova ransomware operation (Germany), 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 nova ransomware group?

nova 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 IBENA Textilwerke breach?

nova published data attributed to IBENA Textilwerke. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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IBENA Textilwerke

Claimed by Nova · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 2, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Nova
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jun 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

IBENA Textilwerke is a family-owned textile manufacturer based in Bocholt, Germany, established in 1826. The company specializes in high-quality home textiles including blankets and bed linen, as well as technical textiles for industrial applications such as fireproof fabrics and automotive interior materials.

Industry: Home Textiles & Technical Fabrics Manufacturing
Address: Bocholt, Germany
Founded: 1826

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration from a established manufacturing company with international business relationships (automotive brands). Threat actor demonstrating proof of access and offering decryption services indicates both encryption and data theft.

Nova claims to have exfiltrated data from IBENA and is offering decryption samples and stolen data files. The group indicates operational capability to decrypt files and possesses stolen business data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Product specifications
Customer information
Technical documentation

The group's post references roughly 2 proof files.

What the group claims

IBENA HEIMTEX is a family-owned textile manufacturer based in Bocholt, Germany, established in 1826. The company specializes in high-quality home textiles, including cuddly blankets, bed linen, and technical textiles for various industries. Their products cater to both consumers and businesses, with offerings such as fireproof fabrics, digital printing textiles, and car interior fabrics for renowned automotive brands. IBENA is committed to sustainability and quality, ensuring their textiles meet numerous quality standards - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data, free 2 files decrypt to the company when its get in touch with support department.

Sources

Leak posthttp://novadmrkp4vbk2padk5t6pbxolndceuc7hrcq4mjaoyed6nxsqiuzyyd.onion/ibena-textilwerke

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About nova

Based on the limited available data, Nova is a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in April 2025 with an apparent financial motivation, having targeted approximately 95 victims in its brief operational period. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented by major security firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than geopolitically motivated attacks. Nova's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been publicly detailed by established threat intelligence sources, though their victim distribution across the United States, France, Brazil, Singapore, and the Netherlands indicates either automated widespread targeting or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and education sectors, suggesting they may focus on organizations with critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major security researchers, Nova's current operational status, organizational structure, and long-term threat trajectory remain largely uncharacterized in established threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 203 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 2, 2026IBENA Textilwerke listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 203 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,692 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, IBENA Textilwerke is reported in Germany, a country with 383 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means IBENA Textilwerke 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, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on nova'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.