Gitlabs: INGV, Spacemanic, Squeezer-software Listed by fog Ransomware Group

On February 12, 2025, the fog Ransomware Group added three organizations — the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Slovak satellite maker Spacemanic, and cloud-deployment platform Squeezer — to its public leak site, claiming that internal files had been exfiltrated during a ransomware attack on their shared GitLab instance.

Reported Details from Reporting

Public reporting indicates the three companies maintained separate GitLab projects on infrastructure operated by a service called Gitlabs. The fog group claims to have stolen internal files from that environment. No exact victim count or volume of data has been disclosed, but the listing itself signals that exfiltration has already occurred. The leak site entry carries today’s date, suggesting the data is now available for download by anyone who visits the onion address.

Internal files were taken; the precise contents remain unknown to the public. The three organizations span scientific research, space hardware manufacturing, and blockchain infrastructure, which means the stolen material could include technical documentation, credentials, customer data, or internal correspondence.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

Even when the immediate targets are research institutes or technology companies, ordinary people feel the impact. Employee email addresses, personal phone numbers, or reused passwords exposed in these leaks often belong to individuals who then become targets at home. If your own email or password appears in the dump, criminals can pivot to your bank accounts, social media, or children’s online profiles. One breach at a company you never heard of can quietly hand attackers the keys to your digital life.

Credential leaks cascade quickly. A password taken from a work GitLab account is frequently the same one used for personal email, streaming services, or family gaming logins. Once inside any of those accounts, attackers can harvest more data and sell or publish it, turning a corporate incident into a household problem.

The Doxxing and Identity-Chain Risk

Ransomware operators rarely stop at posting corporate files. They map relationships between corporate credentials, personal handles, family addresses, and children’s gaming accounts. A single leaked work email can link to your LinkedIn, your child’s Roblox username, or a home address listed in a supplier record. That chain lets attackers build a full profile for identity theft, harassment, or extortion. Gaming accounts are especially vulnerable because they often use the same email and weak passwords as adult accounts, creating an easy on-ramp for doxxing that reaches your children.

Fog Ransomware Group’s Known Activity

Public reporting attributes the fog Ransomware Group with emerging in late 2023. The group has listed hospitals, manufacturers, and technology providers in prior incidents. Its typical playbook involves gaining initial access through compromised credentials or vulnerable remote desktop services, exfiltrating data before encrypting systems, then publishing samples on a leak site to pressure victims into payment. The group’s extortion style combines data leaks with threats to release more sensitive material if demands are not met by a short deadline.

What to do

• Run a DoxxScan to map every link between your emails, phone numbers, usernames, and real-world identity so you can see exactly what this leak exposes about you and your family.
• Rotate any password you used on the affected Gitlabs environment and enable 2FA with an authenticator app everywhere that same password appears.
• Enable continuous DoxxScan monitoring across 13.1B+ breach records and 100+ platforms so the next time your information surfaces you learn within hours rather than months.
• Cover the household with DoxxScan family protection that includes children’s gaming accounts, which often become entry points for doxxing chains when corporate credentials leak.
• Let remediation specialists handle the follow-up work of sending takedown notices to data brokers and monitoring for reappearance of your information.

The fog listing is a reminder that corporate breaches now reach deep into personal lives within days. Taking deliberate steps now limits how far attackers can travel down the identity chain that begins with this leak. DoxxScan by GalaxyWarden delivers continuous monitoring across 13.1 billion+ breach records and more than 100 platforms, AI-powered identity-chain mapping that connects scattered handles to real people, and hands-on remediation by specialists who manage the cleanup for you and your entire household, including children’s gaming accounts that frequently get swept into these cascades.