Was R&K Drysdales hit by ransomware?

R&K Drysdales was listed by the Sarcoma ransomware operation (United Kingdom), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Sarcoma ransomware group?

Sarcoma is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the R&K Drysdales breach?

Sarcoma published data attributed to R&K Drysdales (~80 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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East of Scotland Growers (ESG)

listed as R&K Drysdales · Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 1 year ago

80 GB

Data size

15m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 26, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Sarcoma
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Mar 26, 2025
Data size: 80 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

East of Scotland Growers is a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative established in 1987, based in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. The organization specializes in growing broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and other vegetables across a 180-mile radius in Scottish soils. ESG is recognized by the European Union as a Producer Organisation, providing collective benefits to member growers.

Industry: Agriculture & Food Production – Vegetable Growing Cooperative
Address: Cupar, Fife, United Kingdom
Founded: 1987

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 80 GB of business-critical data (SQL databases and files) from an agricultural cooperative. The scale and nature of the data exposure—likely including supplier information, financial records, and operational data—poses significant business and potentially regulatory risk.

The Sarcoma group claims to have exfiltrated 80 GB of data from ESG, including files and SQL databases. No ransom amount is stated, and the group has published the data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

SQL databases
Business files
Operational records

What the group claims

Part of the ESG group East of Scotland Growers are a farmer owned growing cooperative based in Cupar, Fife. Our main crops are Broccoli, Brussels sprouts & Cauliflower, along with a wider range of vegetable crops produced in the fertile Scottish soils over a 180 mile radius. Established in 1987 with the purpose of providing the individual grower the benefits of being part of a larger group, allowing all members to grow together for the future. ESG are recognised by the European Union as a Producer Organisation; a producer organisation being a group of growers that work collectively as an organisation for the benefit of the grower. ESG take great pride in this recognition.Geo: United Kingdom - Leak size: 80 GB Archive - Contains: Files, SQL

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 26, 2025R&K Drysdales listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 80 GB

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sarcoma dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, R&K Drysdales is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means R&K Drysdales appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Sarcoma's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.