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Papsud

Claimed by Nova · listed 9 months ago

100 GB
Data size
8m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 25, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
France
Listed on leak site
Oct 25, 2025
Data size
100 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Papsud is a small company operating in the office products retail and distribution sector, headquartered in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. It employs between 10 and 19 people and reports annual revenue in the range of €1M–€5M. No public website was available to further verify or expand on its operations.

Industry
Office Products Retail & Distribution
Address
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Employees
10-19

Attack summary

Severity: high — 100 GB of confirmed exfiltrated data includes PII (customer info, ID details), financial records (invoices), and government billing data, representing significant sensitive data exposure across multiple regulated categories, though the company's small scale limits the breadth.

The Nova ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 100 GB of data from Papsud, reportedly including government billing records, customer information, invoices, and identity document details.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government billing records
  • Customer personal information
  • Invoices
  • Identity document details (IDs)

What the group claims

Papsud is a company that operates in the Office Products Retail & Distribution industry. It employs 10to19 people and has 1Mto5M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France - 100GB of data taking include gov billing and costumers infos, invoices and IDs details etc

Sources

Source

Indexed 9 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 183 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 25, 2025Papsud listed by novaon the group's public leak site
Data size
100 GB

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 183 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Papsud is reported in France, a country with 612 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Papsud 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-FR (France), 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.