Was AV Services Barcelona hit by ransomware?

AV Services Barcelona was listed by the nova ransomware operation (Spain), 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 AV Services Barcelona breach?

nova published data attributed to AV Services Barcelona (~100 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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AV Services Barcelona

Claimed by Nova · listed 10 months ago

100 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 25, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Nova
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 25, 2025
Data size: 100 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AV Services Barcelona specializes in comprehensive audiovisual services for corporate events, operating primarily in Barcelona and Madrid with over 15 years of experience. Their offerings include audiovisual production, hybrid events, streaming, videoconferencing, and equipment rental (sound systems, LED screens, lighting). The company focuses on tailored solutions for corporate clients.

Industry: Audiovisual Event Services
Address: Barcelona, Spain

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 100 GB of data including customer PII, billing/financial records, and significant business data, combined with encryption of systems; dual-impact attack with substantial data at risk.

The Nova ransomware group claims to have both exfiltrated 100 GB of data—including billing records, customer information, commercial data, plans, factory/BCN data, archives, videos, photos, and documents—and encrypted files on the victim's systems, leaving a ransom note on the desktop.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Billing records
Customer information
Commercial data
Business plans
BCN and factory data
Archives
Videos
Photos
Documents

What the group claims

AV Services Team specializes in providing comprehensive audiovisual services for events in Barcelona and Madrid, with over 15 years of experience. Their offerings include audiovisual production, hybrid events, streaming, videoconferencing, and equipment rental such as sound systems, LED screens, and lighting. The company is dedicated to delivering tailored solutions for each unique event, ensuring flexibility and agility in their service. They cater to corporate clients and have built a reputation for innovation and exceptional customer service - we have stole 100 GB of data include resources , billing , customers infos , Plans , Commercial Data , BCN and Factory Data , Archives , videos , pictures , Docs and lot more - readme in desktop with guide to recover the encrypted files , contact us and get in touch

Sources

Leak posthttp://novaxtychr6ohlc4zr5its73p6i7unpuhpwoodtzrg2y4w4seytatlid.onion/#

Source

Indexed 10 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

September 25, 2025AV Services Barcelona 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

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, AV Services Barcelona is reported in Spain, a country with 351 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means AV Services Barcelona 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, INCIBE-CERT (Spain), 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.