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Cabinet d’Étude en Sécurité Pyrotechnique

Claimed by Nightspire · listed 3 months ago

600 GB
Data size
3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 7, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nightspire
Status
Data leaked
Country
France
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Apr 7, 2026
Data size
600 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cabinet d'Étude en Sécurité Pyrotechnique (C.E.S.P.) is an independent French consultancy founded in 2005, specialising in pyrotechnic risk assessment and safety. The firm provides expertise in unexploded ordnance (UXO) decontamination of polluted sites and soils, pyrotechnic safety studies for industrial activities (production, storage, maintenance), and project-owner assistance. It serves public and private project owners, civil and military authorities, and construction professionals across France.

Industry
Pyrotechnic Risk Consulting & Safety Engineering
Address
Le Masters, 25 rue de Châtillon, 25480 École Valentin, France
Founded
2005

Attack summary

Severity: high — The firm works with the French Ministry of Armed Forces and handles sensitive pyrotechnic/UXO site data for military and civil infrastructure projects; a confirmed data publication by the threat actor involving such operationally sensitive information warrants a high severity rating even absent detailed inventory.

The Nightspire ransomware group claims to have attacked C.E.S.P. and lists the disclosure status as data_published, indicating data exfiltration and/or publication. No specific details on the volume or nature of stolen data are available from the truncated leak post.

high

What the group claims

Data is not available now.

The leak post

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More than 3000+ Patient's EHR Records
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- Active Print Production- Direct Mail / Variable Data Mailing Jobs- Accounting & Financial records- Font Library- Client Communications/Quotes
- Financial & Accounting Records- Sensitive Employee- Youth Participant & Child Protection Records- Governance & Legal Documents
- Financial Documents- HR Data- Supervisor's Information
Data is not available now.
Data is not available now.
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- QuickBooks Files- Scanned tax returns- Proposal, Contrats- QuickBooks automated backups
- Banking & Financial Records- Personal data- Critical POS Data
- Banking & Financial Data- Accounting & Tax Records
- Financial & Accounting Records- Human Resources- Sales & Marketing
- Sales Related Documents- Human Resources- Sensitive Employee Records- Email and SMS Data
Data is not available now.
- Technical Documents- Financial Sheets- Contracts & Invoices- Business strategy files
- MSSQL-DB- HR Documents- Contracts
Data is not available now.
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Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About nightspire

Nightspire is a ransomware group that first emerged in March 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having targeted over 215 victims in a relatively short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Nightspire appears to employ common ransomware attack vectors targeting organizations across multiple sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and construction industries, while demonstrating a geographic preference for victims in the United States, India, Taiwan, France, and Hong Kong. The group's rapid victim acquisition rate since their March 2025 emergence suggests an active and potentially effective operational capability, though specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, or extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited public reporting from established cybersecurity organizations like CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, Nightspire remains an active threat with insufficient public documentation to fully assess their operational sophistication or organizational structure. The group has been linked to 315 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 12, 2025; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: NIGHT SPIRE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 7, 2026Cabinet d’Étude en Sécurité Pyrotechnique listed by nightspireon the group's public leak site
Data size
600 GB

Other recent disclosures by nightspire

nightspire has been linked to 315 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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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, Cabinet d’Étude en Sécurité Pyrotechnique is reported in France, a country with 240 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nightspire means Cabinet d’Étude en Sécurité Pyrotechnique 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 nightspire'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.