Was COSEF - Consorzio di Sviluppo Economico del Friuli hit by ransomware?

COSEF - Consorzio di Sviluppo Economico del Friuli was listed by the Booba Project 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 Booba Project ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the COSEF - Consorzio di Sviluppo Economico del Friuli breach?

Booba Project published data attributed to COSEF - Consorzio di Sviluppo Economico del Friuli. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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COSEF - Consorzio di Sviluppo Economico del Friuli

Claimed by Booba Project · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Booba Project
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Listed on leak site: Sep 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

COSEF (Consorzio di Sviluppo Economico del Friuli) is a public industrial development consortium established January 1, 2018, managing major industrial zones across the Province of Udine in northeastern Italy. It oversees approximately 18 million square meters of industrial land across four primary zones (Udinese, Alto Friuli, Aussa Corno, and Cividale) hosting 307 enterprises and over 10,975 employees, with a focus on logistics, research, innovation, export, and energy sectors.

Industry: Industrial Consortium & Economic Development
Address: Province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (multiple industrial zones across 18 million m² across multiple municipalities)
Employees: 307 companies, 10975+ employees
Founded: 2018

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration of 200 GB from a public sector economic consortium managing industrial infrastructure and tenant company data across multiple zones. While the data involves public administration and business records, the lack of specifics on regulated data (PII, financial records) and absence of operational disruption claim places this in medium rather than high severity. No ransom demand is stated in the post.

Booba Project claims to have stolen 200 GB of data from COSEF's facilities management systems. The leak post does not specify whether data was encrypted in-place, and does not detail the nature or sensitivity of the exfiltrated data.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Facilities management records
Industrial zone administration data

What the group claims

Facilities Services Stolen data: 200 GB.

Sources

Victim sitecosef.fvg.it

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Booba Project

Booba Project is a nascent ransomware group first observed in July 2026, operating with an apparent financial motivation based on its targeting patterns, though limited public documentation exists given its recent emergence and small victim footprint. The group has claimed or been attributed to at least four known victims, with activity concentrated in Spain and the United States, spanning sectors including telecommunications, agriculture and food production, and technology, suggesting opportunistic rather than highly targeted sector-specific campaigns. Due to the group's recency and limited victim count, no detailed technical analysis of their tooling, initial access vectors, encryption methodology, or extortion tactics has been publicly documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources at this time. No notable high-profile campaigns, record ransoms, or law enforcement actions have been publicly attributed to Booba Project as of the available reporting period. Given its first observation date of July 2026 and minimal public reporting, the group should be considered emergent and actively monitored, with its operational status, potential RaaS affiliation, and country of origin remaining unconfirmed pending further intelligence collection and disclosure by authoritative cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 24 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 6, 2026; most recent post September 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 23, 2026COSEF - Consorzio di Sviluppo Economico del Friuli listed by Booba Project on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Booba Project

Booba Project has been linked to 24 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, COSEF - Consorzio di Sviluppo Economico del Friuli is reported in Italy, a country with 203 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Booba Project means COSEF - Consorzio di Sviluppo Economico del Friuli 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 Booba Project'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.