Disclosure context

About Mallox

**Overview:** Mallox is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, operating as a relatively new player in the ransomware ecosystem with a focus on extracting monetary payments from victim organizations across multiple industry sectors. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service operation. **Attack Methodology:** Limited public documentation exists regarding Mallox's specific attack vectors and technical capabilities, though their successful compromise of 49 documented victims suggests they employ conventional ransomware deployment methods including data encryption and likely extortion tactics to pressure victims into payment. **Notable Campaigns:** Mallox has demonstrated a preference for targeting technology companies, business services, and manufacturing sectors, with their operations showing particular concentration in the United Kingdom, India, and the United States, though specific high-profile incidents have not been widely publicized by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. **Current Status:** The group remains active as of recent threat intelligence reporting, continuing to conduct ransomware operations across their preferred geographic and sectoral targets. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 15, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 3, 2023CCAA listed by Malloxon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, CCAA is reported in Brazil, a country with 319 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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CCAA Araxá

listed as CCAA · Claimed by Mallox · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jun 3, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Mallox
Status: Data leaked
Country: Brazil
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Jun 3, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CCAA Araxá is a franchised unit of CCAA, a well-established Brazilian English-language teaching institution. The school operates in Araxá, Minas Gerais, Brazil, offering English courses to students of various ages. As a franchise unit, it is part of a broader national network of language schools.

Industry: Language & Preparatory Education (English Language Schools)
Address: Araxá, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status confirmed), indicating exfiltration occurred, but no details on data volume, PII scale, or regulated data categories are available from the post; the victim is a small franchise education unit with limited likely critical data exposure.

Mallox claims to have exfiltrated data from CCAA Araxá and published it via an AnonFiles archive link, indicating active data disclosure. No ransom amount was stated and no data size was specified, but the data was made publicly available.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Exfiltrated company files (RAR archive)

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

INFO: https://www.zoominfo.com/c/ccaa/372444807?__cf_chl_tk=9kqu5SXzH664NKjerVDLfEaOpLl2.oSyDBUZT_Sx2v8-1679667712-0-gaNycGzNDOU https://anonfiles.com/Fb6aCdg6zd/CCAA_rar Pass: U&YV(C&t6c97tc(&TC97tcdf(V&TC9

Sources

Victim siteccaaaraxa.com.br
Leak posthttp://wtyafjyhwqrgo4a45wdvvwhen3cx4euie73qvlhkhvlrexljoyuklaad.onion/mallox/post?4RZWKGw7frmmTRr

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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