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Nanolive

listed as nanolive.ch 2.0 · Claimed by Apt73 · listed 2 years ago

20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 13, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Apt73
Status
Data leaked
Country
Switzerland
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Nov 13, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nanolive is a company specializing in label-free live cell imaging and analysis platforms, consumables, and services. Their technology is non-invasive and used for cellular research and analysis.

Industry
Medical Devices & Biotechnology

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, without visibility into the type or volume of sensitive data (e.g., PII, trade secrets, patient data), and without operational impact details, the severity cannot be elevated to high or critical.

APT73 claims to have compromised Nanolive and published data. The group has disclosed the attack but specific details on exfiltration scope or encryption are not evident in the available post excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company information
  • Proprietary technology documentation

What the group claims

Nanolive’s label-free live cell imaging and analysis platforms, consumables and services are built on technology that is 100% non-invasive, thus ...

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Apt73

APT73 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in April 2024, with financial motivation as their primary driver based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid growth in their operational tempo, accumulating 78 documented victims within their first months of activity. Their targeting methodology shows a preference for English-speaking markets and major economies, with the United Kingdom and United States representing their primary focus areas, followed by significant activity in India, Brazil, and France. The group exhibits a clear preference for high-value sectors including business services, technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations, suggesting a calculated approach to victim selection based on potential payment capability and operational impact. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, or organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group's current operational status appears active based on the timeline of their emergence, though comprehensive analysis of their capabilities and infrastructure requires additional intelligence gathering and documentation by security researchers. The group has been linked to 161 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 22, 2024; most recent post July 6, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Eraleign.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 13, 2024nanolive.ch 2.0 listed by Apt73on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Apt73

Apt73 has been linked to 161 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, nanolive.ch 2.0 is reported in Switzerland, a country with 154 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Apt73 means nanolive.ch 2.0 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, NCSC-CH (Switzerland), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Apt73'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.