Disclosure context

About netrunner

Based on the limited publicly available information, netrunner is a relatively new ransomware group that first emerged in April 2026 with documented attacks against at least six organizations. The group appears to be financially motivated, targeting a diverse range of sectors including healthcare, consumer services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and agriculture across multiple countries including Japan, the United States, Jordan, Italy, and South Korea. Due to the recent emergence of this group and limited public reporting from established threat intelligence sources, detailed information about their country of origin, operational affiliations, specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, or whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model remains undocumented by major cybersecurity organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant. The group's targeting pattern suggests opportunistic victim selection rather than geopolitically motivated attacks, given the broad geographic and sectoral distribution of their documented victims. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against netrunner have been publicly reported by reputable security researchers at this time. Given the group's recent emergence in 2026, current activity status and operational capabilities require further monitoring and analysis by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 9 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 3, 2026; most recent post May 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 14, 2026GEG srl listed by netrunneron the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunications sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, GEG srl is reported in Italy, a country with 496 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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GEG srl

Claimed by netrunner · listed 7 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

Listed
May 14, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: netrunner
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: Italy
Sector: Telecommunications
Listed on leak site: May 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

GEG srl, established in 1981, designs and builds integrated mobile radio systems across Italy. Over more than 35 years it has served 500+ public administrations and manages over 100,000 radios. Since 2004 it has been Italy's exclusive distributor of DAMM TETRA systems, holding approximately 60% of Italy's civilian TETRA market with 350+ base stations deployed.

Industry: Public Safety & Critical Infrastructure Radio Communications
Founded: 1981

Attack summary

Severity: medium — GEG srl operates critical public-safety radio infrastructure (TETRA networks) serving 500+ public administrations in Italy; even a listing-only disclosure against such a critical-infrastructure operator carries elevated risk, though no confirmed exfiltration or proof files are advertised, precluding a higher rating.

The netrunner ransomware group has listed GEG srl as a victim; the post constitutes a disclosure/listing with no explicit claim of encryption or exfiltration volume stated, and no ransom demand or data size is specified.

medium

What the group claims

Established in 1981, designs and builds integrated mobile radio systems across Italy. Served 500+ public administrations and manages 100,000+ radios. Italy's exclusive DAMM TETRA distributor since 2004, holding ~60% of the civilian TETRA market with 350+ base stations.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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GEG srl (est. 1981) designs and builds integrated mobile radio systems across Italy. Over 35 years it served 500+ public administrations and manages 100,000+ radios. Since 2004 it is Italy’s exclusive DAMM TETRA distributor. It held ~60% of the civilian TETRA market (350+ base stations) 
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Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Leak posthttp://netrunrsb3bivj5gnwajzxlig5qkteb6edgthxj7fmsvhkzxtwfxwaad.onion

Source

Indexed 7 days ago

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