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PHI Studio

listed as Phi · Claimed by Nova · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 17, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Jul 17, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PHI Studio is a VR/AR/XR production company that creates and curates immersive works. Recognized internationally for innovative storytelling and technical expertise, the company has collaborated on award-winning projects with global industry partners and has exhibited work in major cultural venues including New York, Tokyo, Venice, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, and Salt Lake City.

Industry
Virtual Reality & Immersive Media Production

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data exfiltration with published disclosure, but no specific sensitive data categories (PII at scale, financial records, health data) are identified in the post. The impact is primarily reputational and operational unless confidential creative or client project details constitute significant business harm.

Nova claims to have exfiltrated data from PHI Studio and is offering samples to the company via their support department contact. The group has published stolen data and is using the leak as leverage.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business/project records
  • Potentially proprietary creative work details

What the group claims

PHI Studio focuses its activities on the presentation and curation of immersive works in virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and extended reality (XR). Recognized locally and internationally for its innovative production approach, technical expertise and achievements in new forms of storytelling, PHI Studio collaborates with major global industry players and has worked on many award-winning projects, with international presentations in New York, Tokyo, Venice, Frankfurt, Luxembourg and Salt Lake City, among others. As a pioneer in interactive experiences, PHI Studio pushes the boundaries of immersive projects, with a focus on enhancing the visitor experience through a keen sense of detail and the elaboration of high-quality scenography. With a reputation for close collaborations with artists, creators, directors and producers from different backgrounds, PHI Studio aspires to be a catalyst of innovation, supporting the development of present and future talent - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 hours 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 186 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 17, 2026Phi listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 186 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Phi 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.
  • 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.