Disclosure context

About Knight

Knight is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on targeting critical infrastructure and high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With 48 known victims since their emergence, Knight has shown a preference for targeting organizations across the United States, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Germany, with particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, media, and government sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though their targeting of healthcare and government entities suggests they employ effective initial access techniques and likely utilize double extortion tactics common among contemporary ransomware groups. While specific notable campaigns have not been widely publicized by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's consistent activity across multiple countries and high-value sectors indicates sustained operational capability. Knight appears to remain active as of current reporting, though detailed technical analysis and specific law enforcement actions against the group have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 6, 2023; most recent post February 12, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 31, 2023Kinesis Film Srl listed by Knighton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Media sector, which has 37 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kinesis Film Srl is reported in Italy, a country with 496 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Kinesis Film Srl

Claimed by Knight · listed 3 years ago

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 31, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Knight
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Media
Listed on leak site: Oct 31, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kinesis Film Srl is an independent film production company founded in Rome in 2010 by professionals from various sectors of the cinema industry. The company is composed of producers and financiers united by the common goal of producing independent feature-length fiction films, with a focus on fostering Italian and international co-productions.

Industry: Independent Film Production
Address: Roma, Italy
Founded: 2010

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but there is no stated data size, no evidence of regulated/sensitive personal data at scale, and the victim is a small independent film production company with limited critical-infrastructure relevance.

The Knight ransomware group claims to have attacked Kinesis Film Srl and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify the volume of exfiltrated data or whether encryption was also performed.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company documents
Production-related files
Financial/investor records

What the group claims

https://www.kinesisfilm.it/Kinesis srl è una società di produzione indipendente fondata a Roma nel 2010 da professionisti provenienti da differenti settori del mondo cinematografico.La società è composta da produttori e finanziatori, associatisi con l’obbiettivo comune di realizzare lungometraggi di finzione indipendenti, favorendo lo sviluppo di coproduzioni italiane e internazionali.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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