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warrendale-wagyu.co.uk

Claimed by Darkvault · listed 2 years ago

23m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 1, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Darkvault
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Aug 1, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Warrendale Wagyu is a Yorkshire-based British Wagyu beef producer established in 2017. They partner with over 800 UK farmers to cross full-blood Wagyu genetics with dairy cattle to produce F1 Wagyu crosses, supplying premium beef direct to consumers. They market themselves as the largest supplier of Wagyu beef in the UK.

Industry
Specialty Livestock & Meat Production
Founded
2017

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are mentioned in the leak post. No operational disruption is stated. This appears to be a listing/announcement only, with no evidence of actual data exfiltration or encryption activity.

Darkvault claims to have accessed Warrendale Wagyu systems and published data. The leak post provides no detail on what data was exfiltrated, whether encryption occurred, or what specific information is at stake.

low

What the group claims

Established in 2017, we are a Yorkshire based Wagyu Beef Business, currently working in partnership with over 800 farmer partners across the UK. We work with forward-thinking dairy farmers, to cross full blood Wagyu genetics to produce a Wagyu Cross, known as an F1 Wagyu.

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

  • August 1, 2024warrendale-wagyu.co.uk 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, warrendale-wagyu.co.uk is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Darkvault means warrendale-wagyu.co.uk 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 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.