Società Italiana Brevetti

Societ Italiana Brevetti is an Italian intellectual property consultancy that also operates under the alias Italian Patent Office. The firm provides advisory and management services for patents, trademarks, and copyrights on behalf of its clients. Its core activities include conducting prior art searches, drafting and filing applications, and maintaining IP portfolios. The consultancy serves businesses, inventors, and legal professionals seeking protection for their innovations and creative works. While the prompt does not specify its exact market reach, it is based in Italy and likely serves both domestic and international clients. The organization's work involves handling confidential client information related to intellectual property assets.

As a specialist in intellectual property, Societ Italiana Brevetti distinguishes itself by focusing exclusively on the legal and administrative aspects of IP rights. The sensitivity of the data it manages—such as invention disclosures, trademark designs, and copyright materials—makes it a notable target for cyber threats. In February 2023, the firm suffered a ransomware attack carried out by the Vice Society group, which encrypted data and exfiltrated confidential information. The attackers employed double extortion tactics, leveraging vulnerabilities like PrintNightmare for privilege escalation and targeting backup systems to impede recovery. They used lateral movement tools such as proxychain and impacket, degraded ESXi virtualization servers, and attempted to bypass Windows security protections. The incident resulted in operational disruption and the public release of stolen client documents on the group's dark web leak site after the organization refused to pay the ransom.