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Gruppo C.R S.p.a

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 1 year ago

255 GB
Data size
15m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 8, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Sarcoma
Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Listed on leak site
Apr 8, 2025
Data size
255 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gruppo C.R S.p.a is an Italian retail and food distribution company operating 13 Conad supermarkets, 1 Upim non-food store, 2 Pet Store Conad locations, and 8 Cookery branded stores. The group also operates a food production laboratory producing bakery, pastry, dairy and kitchen products, plus a craft beer production company serving specialized catering establishments across Italy and Europe.

Industry
Retail & Food Distribution

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration of 255 GB from a multi-entity retail and food distribution company with operational infrastructure. Exposure includes business files and SQL databases which likely contain sensitive operational, financial, and customer information. Published disclosure indicates active threat.

The Sarcoma group claims to have exfiltrated 255 GB of data from Gruppo C.R S.p.a, including files and SQL databases. The group has published the stolen data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business files
  • SQL databases
  • Company records

What the group claims

Gruppo C.R S.p.a In addition to the main activity represented by the large-scale retail sector, the company, always animated by the great spirit of initiative of its President, over the years has entered other commercial sectors, such as catering and fitness, and in recent times has also organized itself with a real technical structure, ready to study the identification of new solutions both technological and commercial and innovative for the realization of new outlets The large-scale retail sector is specifically characterized by 13 supermarkets under the Conad brand with reference to the food sector, and 1 store under the Upim brand with regard to the non-food sector, and also 2 pet stores under the Pet Store Conad brand. To complete the Group's business proposition, a new Cookery brand was created in 2016 on the occasion of the new opening of the Domus shopping center. To date, the GroupCr has 8 stores under the Cookery brand. Established for our in-house café/diner in the mall, it has since become a full-fledged production center. In this laboratory, bakery, pastry, dairy and kitchen products are prepared daily, with a distribution network for all our supermarkets. I n addition, since 2016 the company has decided to create together with other experts in the field, a craft beer production company, which is marketed with direct supplies to several highly specialized catering establishments in Italy and Europe.Geo: Italy - Leak size: 255 GB Archive - Contains: Files, SQL

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 8, 2025Gruppo C.R S.p.a listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site
Data size
255 GB

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sarcoma dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Gruppo C.R S.p.a is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means Gruppo C.R S.p.a 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Sarcoma'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.