Was agribazaar.com hit by ransomware?

agribazaar.com was listed by the Darkvault ransomware operation (India), 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 Darkvault ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the agribazaar.com breach?

Darkvault published data attributed to agribazaar.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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agribazaar.com

Claimed by Darkvault · listed 2 years ago

27m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 11, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Darkvault
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Apr 11, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Agribazaar is India's leading agritech platform that operates as an online marketplace connecting farmers and traders. The platform provides crop trading services, agricultural insights on crop health, sustainable farming practices, irrigation, weather data, and fair market rate information to empower farmers and expand market access.

Industry: Agricultural Technology & Digital Marketplace

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post is a listing/announcement with no proof files, screenshots, or specific details about data exfiltration, encryption impact, or operational disruption. No data inventory or damage claims are articulated.

Darkvault claims to have compromised Agribazaar. The specific nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and data categories at risk are not detailed in the provided leak post excerpt.

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What the group claims

Agribazaar is India’s leading tech platform for all agri needs to empower farmers and traders nationwide. It's a seamless online marketplace for crops, expanding market access and income potential. It provides insights on crop health, sustainable farming practices, irrigation, weather, and fair market rates.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Darkvault

Darkvault is an emerging ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest a financially motivated cybercriminal organization rather than state-sponsored activity. Given the limited public documentation from established security research organizations, specific details regarding Darkvault's attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and potential data exfiltration practices have not been comprehensively analyzed or reported by major threat intelligence providers such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant. The group has reportedly compromised approximately 55 victims across diverse geographic regions, with particular concentration in India, the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and South Korea, while demonstrating sector preferences for technology companies, business services, healthcare organizations, transportation and logistics firms, and financial institutions. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited coverage in established threat intelligence channels, comprehensive details regarding notable high-profile campaigns, ransom demands, or specific law enforcement actions remain undocumented in publicly available security research. Current intelligence suggests the group maintains active operations as of late 2024, though the limited public reporting on Darkvault indicates either highly effective operational security or insufficient analysis by major cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 55 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 11, 2024; most recent post January 6, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: DARK VAULT.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 11, 2024agribazaar.com listed by Darkvaulton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Darkvault

Darkvault has been linked to 55 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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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, agribazaar.com is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Darkvault means agribazaar.com 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, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Darkvault'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.