Disclosure context

About lockbit5

Based on the provided data, LockBit5 appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in December 2025, representing what may be a new iteration or rebrand within the LockBit ransomware ecosystem, with primary financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors. Given the LockBit naming convention and the timing of emergence, this group likely operates from Eastern Europe or Russia and may represent either a continuation of previous LockBit operations or a new affiliate group leveraging the established LockBit brand, though specific organizational details remain undocumented by major security agencies. While detailed attack methodologies have not been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's targeting pattern across 157 victims suggests a broad-spectrum approach focusing on technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation sectors primarily in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Italy, and Mexico. Due to the group's recent emergence in December 2025, there are no publicly documented notable campaigns or major incidents reported by established threat intelligence sources, though the victim count indicates active operations. The group appears to be currently active based on the recent first observation date, though comprehensive analysis from major security agencies has not yet been published given the short timeframe since emergence. The group has been linked to 252 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 7, 2025; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 26, 2026studiopiu.net listed by lockbit5on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, studiopiu.net is reported in IT, a country with 195 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.

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Studio Più

listed as studiopiu.net · Claimed by lockbit5 · listed 25 days ago

24d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 26, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: lockbit5
Status: Data leaked
Country: IT
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Studio Più is a historic Italian dance music radio station based in Desenzano del Garda, on the shores of Lake Garda, in the Brescia province of northern Italy. It is described as one of the foundational voices of Italian dance radio broadcasting. The station operates under the domain studiopiu.net.

Industry: Radio Broadcasting & Dance Music Media
Address: Desenzano del Garda, Brescia, Italy

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but the scale and sensitivity of data are unknown; the victim is a small regional radio broadcaster with no indication of large-scale regulated data (e.g., medical or financial records at scale).

The LockBit 5 group claims to have attacked Studio Più and has published data ('data_published' status), though no specific data size or ransom demand has been stated in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal radio station files
Potentially staff/personnel records
Potentially listener/subscriber data
Business operational documents

What the group claims

Di fronte al Lago di Garda, a Desenzano, batte uno dei cuori storici della radiofonia dance italiana...

Sources

Source

Indexed 25 days ago

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