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Casale Del Giglio

Claimed by Orca · listed 3 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 27, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Orca
Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Apr 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Casale del Giglio is an Italian winery founded in 1967 by Dr. Berardino Santarelli, located in Le Ferriere, in the Pontine plain south of Rome, Lazio. The estate produces a broad portfolio of white, rosé, red, sweet wines, grappas, and olive oil, and is internationally recognised with awards such as Gold Medals at the AWC Vienna Spring Tasting 2026. The winery also operates guided tours and tastings at its historic premises.

Industry
Winery & Wine Production
Address
Le Ferriere, Latina, Lazio, Italy
Employees
11-50
Founded
1967

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, confirming some level of exfiltration, but the company is a small Italian winery with no indication of large-scale regulated data (medical, financial, government). The scope and sensitivity of exfiltrated data appear limited, warranting a medium severity rating.

The Orca ransomware group claims to have attacked Casale del Giglio and has published data (disclosed status: data_published); the leak post references the company's founding and background, suggesting exfiltration of internal records, though the exact data categories and volume are not specified in the truncated post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company internal records
  • Potentially employee/personnel data
  • Potentially financial/business documents

What the group claims

Casale del Giglio was founded in 1967 by Dr. Berardino Santarelli, a native of t...

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Orca

Orca is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in September 2024, appearing to be financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational behavior. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation from major security researchers to definitively establish their country of origin or whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and government agencies have not yet published detailed technical analyses of their operations. The group has reportedly compromised at least four known victims across a geographically diverse range including Colombia, China, Austria, and Tennessee, with their attacks primarily targeting organizations in the technology, manufacturing, and transportation/logistics sectors. Given the group's recent emergence in September 2024 and lack of extensive public reporting, Orca appears to be in the early stages of their operations and remains active, though comprehensive threat intelligence on their capabilities and impact is still developing within the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 16, 2024; most recent post April 27, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 27, 2026Casale Del Giglio listed by Orcaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Orca

Orca has been linked to 5 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Casale Del Giglio is reported in Italy, a country with 203 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Orca means Casale Del Giglio 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 Orca'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.