National Institute of Materials Physics

National Institute of Materials Physics was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to nova in November 2025. The organization, operating in the Education sector in RO, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.

nova operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.

Romania Scientific Institute in Bucharest. He is engaged in fundamental and applied research and development, in particular in the field of solid state physics and materials research.