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The Laxmi Niwas Palace

Claimed by Nova · listed 9 months ago

8m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 23, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
India
Sector
Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site
Oct 23, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Laxmi Niwas Palace is a luxury heritage hotel housed in a historic royal palace in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. Originally built in 1902 for Maharaja Ganga Singh, the property has been converted into a hotel and is a prominent tourist destination. It offers guests accommodation within the former royal palace, combining historical significance with hospitality services.

Industry
Luxury Heritage Hospitality
Address
Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
Founded
1902

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group (data_published status), indicating confirmed exfiltration, but the leak post provides no detail on the type, volume, or sensitivity of the data involved, preventing a higher severity classification.

The Nova ransomware group claims an attack against The Laxmi Niwas Palace and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify the nature or volume of the exfiltrated data or whether encryption occurred.

medium

What the group claims

India A luxury historic hotel located in a palace in Bikaner, India. It was built in 1902 for Maharaja Ganga Singh and is now a popular tourist destination offering guests accommodation in the former royal palace.

Sources

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About nova

Based on the limited available data, Nova is a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in April 2025 with an apparent financial motivation, having targeted approximately 95 victims in its brief operational period. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented by major security firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than geopolitically motivated attacks. Nova's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been publicly detailed by established threat intelligence sources, though their victim distribution across the United States, France, Brazil, Singapore, and the Netherlands indicates either automated widespread targeting or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and education sectors, suggesting they may focus on organizations with critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major security researchers, Nova's current operational status, organizational structure, and long-term threat trajectory remain largely uncharacterized in established threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 183 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 23, 2025The Laxmi Niwas Palace listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 183 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 452 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Laxmi Niwas Palace is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means The Laxmi Niwas Palace 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-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on nova'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.