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Desert Micro

Claimed by Nova · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 19, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Jun 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Desert Micro is a software and internet services company based in Jacksonville, Florida, providing software solutions to waste management and storage companies. The company operates with 25–100 employees and serves clients in the sanitation and environmental services sector.

Industry
Software & Internet Services
Address
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Employees
25-100

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of financial and payment card data at scale, affecting multiple downstream customer companies; exposure of PII and sensitive business records from clients in regulated sectors.

The Nova group claims to have exfiltrated customer data from Desert Micro, including invoices, storage data, credit card details, payment and billing documents, and database backups from multiple client companies (Foothills Sanitation, Green Environmental, Inland Service, QC, FusionSite). The group states it has published proof samples.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • customer invoices
  • storage data
  • credit card details
  • payment and billing documents
  • database backups
  • client company records

What the group claims

DesertMicro.net is a Software & Internet based company located in Jacksonville, Florida, United States with over 25 - 100 employees, data included large sums of costumers data who use the company software service, such curbside waste company invoices and Storage data, foothillsSanitation + GreenEnviromnetal + InlandService + QC + FusionSite companies the same, credit cards Details and payments billings Documents, databases backups and more - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 hours 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 166 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post June 19, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 19, 2026Desert Micro listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 166 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 Technology sector, which has 3,544 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Desert Micro 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.
  • 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.