University of Valencia
About the organisation
University of Valencia is a university located in the Spanish city of Valencia. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Valencian Community, and is regarded as one of Spain's leading academic institutions. The University was founded in 1499, and currently has around 55,000 students. Most of the courses are given through the medium of Spanish, but the university has promised to increase the amount of courses available in Valencian. Moreover, in some degrees part of the teaching is in English - we don't know why you save personal kids photos and students on the server, the data is very sensitive and Embarrassing for the students and the staffs and kids, we will discuss the status with our Management Team about the kids photos, Contact us for deal - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.
What the listing means
University of Valencia appeared on the nova leak site on 23 May 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated — the attack itself is dated 16 May 2026, 7 days before the listing. This group has published 21 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing University of Valencia as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on uv.es, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Education organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/VW5pdmVyc2l0eSBvZiBWYWxlbmNpYUBub3Zh
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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.
