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# Ransomware: safepay named assiprime.it (IT)
- URL: https://f4n6.co.uk/security-feed/ransomware-safepay-named-assiprime-it-it/
- Published: 2026-09-09T09:23:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-09T09:23:16.000Z
- Author: Jeff Davies
- Tags: #security-feed, safepay

## 1\. Executive summary

On 2026-09-08, the ransomware group operating under the name "safepay" publicly listed the Italian insurance brokerage and financial consulting firm Assiprime (assiprime.it) as a victim on its leak site. The listing claims the group obtained data from Assiprime; no technical detail on initial access, malware, or exfiltrated content is present in the source material. Attribution to "safepay" is unconfirmed — the actor has no MITRE ATT&CK profile in our verified reference data, and the claim rests entirely on the group's own leak-site post. The direct risk to EMEA financial services is limited to Assiprime and its clients, but the listing is part of a same-day safepay cluster targeting Italian, German, and Portuguese SMEs in insurance, financial consulting, IT services, and tax advisory — sectors that sit in the supply chains of regulated financial institutions.

## 2\. Regulatory framing

| Article                                                                 | Trigger (the fact in this item)                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Practical impact                                                                                                                                                           |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| DORA Art. 18: classification of ICT-related incidents and cyber threats | A claimed ransomware data-theft event at an Italian insurance brokerage — a financial-sector entity — that must be classified under the entity's ICT incident process before any reporting decision is made.                                              | If Assiprime or an affected client entity confirms compromise, the event must be classified against the entity's ICT incident criteria to determine whether it is "major". |
| DORA Art. 28: ICT third-party risk — general principles                 | Assiprime is an insurance brokerage and financial consulting provider — a plausible ICT/outsourcing counterparty to regulated financial entities — and the same safepay cluster has also named IT service providers (new-point.it, hbpro.pt, cenesco.de). | Financial entities with commercial relationships with the named victims should assess exposure through those relationships as part of ICT third-party risk management.     |

No specific NIS2 or UK NIS article is directly engaged by this item: the source material contains no confirmed incident detail, and the victims named are Italian, German, and Portuguese entities — outside UK NIS 2018 scope. NIS2 Art. 23 would only be triggered by a confirmed significant incident at an in-scope entity, which the leak-site listing alone does not establish.

## 3\. Technical analysis & attack chain

**What is confirmed:** safepay's leak site listed assiprime.it as a victim on 2026-09-08, alongside a description of Assiprime as a provider of insurance brokerage, risk-management, financial consulting, and related assistance services to private individuals, businesses, professionals, artisans, and commercial clients. The listing implies data theft (the standard leak-site extortion model), but the source does not state what data was taken, whether it has been published, or whether any encryption occurred.

**What is not in the source material:** initial access vector, exploited vulnerability or CVE, malware family or capabilities, persistence mechanism, command-and-control infrastructure, lateral movement, exfiltration volume, or ransom demand. No IOCs, no leak screenshot content, and no sample data are provided. The ransomware.live entry references DNS records for the victim domain but does not reproduce them.

**Attribution caveat:** "safepay" has no MITRE ATT&CK profile in our verified reference data. Attribution is unconfirmed and rests entirely on the group's self-published leak-site claim. Single-sourced; verify before enforcement.

**Campaign context (single-sourced, ransomware.live):** the same actor name has recently listed a cluster of European SME victims, including:

- new-point.it (IT) — IT solutions supplier, Signa, Florence, founded 2006
- cenesco.de (DE) — IT solutions for SMEs, founded 1998
- hbpro.pt (PT) — technology products, infrastructure, consulting, maintenance, founded 1994
- lbb-treuhand.de (DE) — tax consulting, auditing, accounting, payroll, financial reporting

The pattern is consistent with opportunistic SME targeting rather than a named-campaign against a specific financial institution. This clustering is derived from ransomware.live listings only and should be treated as a targeting signal, not corroborated intelligence.

## 4\. Mitigation & containment

There are no technical indicators to drive containment. Actions are exposure-assessment and process actions:

### P1 — within 24h

- If you are Assiprime or a client of Assiprime: treat the listing as a potential confirmed compromise. Initiate incident response, preserve logs, and classify the event under your ICT incident management process (DORA Art. 17/18 for in-scope entities).
- If you have a commercial, data-sharing, or outsourcing relationship with any of the named victims (assiprime.it, new-point.it, cenesco.de, hbpro.pt, lbb-treuhand.de): inventory what data and system access those relationships involve, and contact the counterparty for a status statement.

### P2 — within 72h

- Review any inbound connections, file transfers, or API integrations from the named victims' domains for the past 30 days; treat unexpected attachments or credential prompts referencing these counterparties as suspicious — leak-site victims are frequently followed by impersonation and fraud attempts against their clients.
- For financial institutions: brief payment-operations staff that a named counterparty's data may be in criminal hands; reinforce callback verification for any payment-instruction changes referencing Assiprime or the other named entities.

### P3 — within 7 days

- Monitor the safepay leak site and the assiprime.it listing for publication of stolen data; if client or personal data appears, that changes the notification posture (data-protection and, where applicable, DORA Art. 19 major-incident reporting).
- Update third-party risk records for the affected counterparties.

## 5\. Indicators of compromise

No indicators of compromise available in the source material. The listing provides only the victim domain and actor name; no hashes, network indicators, or malware artefacts are present. The victim domain assiprime.it is not itself an IOC — it is the victim's legitimate domain.

## 6\. Detection

Insufficient indicators to author detection rules. The source material contains no malware artefacts, strings, command-line indicators, or behavioural telemetry.

## 7\. Sources

- Ransomware.live — Victim: assiprime.it – safepay — https://www.ransomware.live/id/YXNzaXByaW1lLml0QHNhZmVwYXk= — 2026-09-08
- Ransomware.live — Victim: new-point.it – safepay — https://www.ransomware.live/id/bmV3LXBvaW50Lml0QHNhZmVwYXk= — context
- Ransomware.live — Victim: cenesco.de – safepay — https://www.ransomware.live/id/Y2VuZXNjby5kZUBzYWZlcGF5 — context
- Ransomware.live — Victim: hbpro.pt – safepay — https://www.ransomware.live/id/aGJwcm8ucHRAc2FmZXBheQ== — context
- Ransomware.live — Victim: lbb-treuhand.de – safepay — https://www.ransomware.live/id/bGJiLXRyZXVoYW5kLmRlQHNhZmVwYXk= — context

## 8\. Adverse Trace position

This is a leak-site victim listing with no corroborating technical detail: no malware, no IOCs, no confirmed breach, and unconfirmed attribution to an actor with no MITRE profile. We assess the direct risk as low for the broader EMEA financial-services community and material only for Assiprime and entities with data or commercial relationships with the named victims. The value of this item is the targeting signal: safepay is consistently naming small European financial-services and IT-services firms, which are exactly the third parties that regulated institutions depend on. We will monitor the assiprime.it listing for data publication, track further safepay listings for pattern confirmation, and issue a follow-up if technical detail or corroborated breach reporting emerges. Confidence in all claims above is low-to-moderate and single-sourced; verify before enforcement.

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