Ransomware victim disclosure

Elsap S.p.A.

listed as elsapspa · Claimed by Donex · listed 2 years ago

27m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 8, 2024
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Donex
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 8, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Elsap S.p.A. is an Italian distributor of industrial electronic and electromechanical components, founded in 1978. Based in Milan, the company serves over 1,100 active clients across multiple sectors including automation, defense, rail, medical, renewable energy, and HVAC systems, offering both standard components and custom solutions.

Industry: Electronics & Electromechanical Components Distribution
Address: V.le Famagosta 61, 20142 Milano, Italy
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1978

Attack summary

Severity: low — Data published status confirmed, but no proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory are advertised in the available leak post excerpt. No operational impact or sensitive data categories are explicitly claimed.

Donex claims to have attacked Elsap and exfiltrated data. No specific details about the nature of exfiltration or data categories are provided in the truncated leak post.

low

What the group claims

Da oltre 50 anni, Elsap è un’impresa dedita alla rappresentanza e alla distribuzione di componenti elettronici ed elettromeccanici ...

Sources

Victim siteelsap.it
Leak posthttp://g3h3klsev3eiofxhykmtenmdpi67wzmaixredk5pjuttbx7okcfkftqd.onion/81884efe91af/

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Donex

Donex is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2024 that appears to be financially motivated, having claimed five documented victims in its initial months of operation. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation by major security researchers, though their targeting patterns suggest a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families. Donex has demonstrated a preference for targeting technology and transportation/logistics sectors, with documented attacks spanning multiple continents including victims in Italy, Czech Republic, United States, Netherlands, and Belgium, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of initial access brokers with diverse geographic reach. The group has also shown interest in agriculture and food production entities, though specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the group's recent emergence in early 2024 and limited public reporting, Donex appears to remain active but operates at a significantly smaller scale than major ransomware families, with insufficient public documentation to determine their current operational status or any law enforcement disruption efforts. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 8, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 8, 2024elsapspa listed by Donexon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,526 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, elsapspa is reported in Italy, a country with 496 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.