Disclosure context

About apt73

APT73 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in April 2024, with financial motivation as their primary driver based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid growth in their operational tempo, accumulating 78 documented victims within their first months of activity. Their targeting methodology shows a preference for English-speaking markets and major economies, with the United Kingdom and United States representing their primary focus areas, followed by significant activity in India, Brazil, and France. The group exhibits a clear preference for high-value sectors including business services, technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations, suggesting a calculated approach to victim selection based on potential payment capability and operational impact. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, or organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group's current operational status appears active based on the timeline of their emergence, though comprehensive analysis of their capabilities and infrastructure requires additional intelligence gathering and documentation by security researchers. The group has been linked to 141 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 22, 2024; most recent post April 27, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Eraleign.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 27, 2026bigalsfoodservice.co.uk listed by apt73on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, bigalsfoodservice.co.uk is reported in GB, a country with 309 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Kepak Foodservice

listed as bigalsfoodservice.co.uk · Claimed by apt73 · listed 23 days ago

23d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: apt73
Status: Data leaked
Country: GB
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Apr 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kepak Foodservice is an Irish foodservice company with roots tracing back to a butcher's shop in Dublin city centre in 1966. The company supplies branded and bespoke food products across multiple sectors in the UK and Ireland, operating under the domain bigalsfoodservice.co.uk. It serves foodservice customers through a range of meat and food products.

Industry: Foodservice & Meat Processing
Founded: 1966

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor, indicating exfiltration of company data; however, the nature and sensitivity of the published data is not fully detailed, warranting a high rather than critical rating.

The group apt73 claims to have compromised Kepak Foodservice and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the specific nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and the volume of data are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business data (unspecified)

What the group claims

Our foodservice roots trace all the way back to a butchers shop in Dublin city centre in 1966. Ke...

Sources

Victim sitebigalsfoodservice.co.uk
Leak posthttp://basherq53eniermxovo3bkduw5qqq5bkqcml3qictfmamgvmzovykyqd.onion/page_company.php?id=49

Source

Indexed 23 days ago

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