Disclosure context

About Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including healthcare, non-profit, education, finance, and energy. The group has claimed at least 36 victims since its emergence, with attacks predominantly focused on the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and the Philippines. While detailed technical analysis of Nokoyawa's operations remains limited in public reporting, the group appears to follow conventional ransomware tactics targeting critical infrastructure and essential services sectors. Their targeting of healthcare and educational institutions suggests they operate without the sector restrictions that some other ransomware groups have adopted. Notable campaigns include attacks across their preferred geographic regions, though specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security firms. As of current reporting, Nokoyawa appears to remain an active threat, though the group's relatively recent emergence means long-term operational patterns and potential law enforcement disruption efforts are still developing. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 9, 2022; most recent post August 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 23, 2023Fresca listed by Nokoyawaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 100 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Food & Agriculture sector, which has 13 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Fresca is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 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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Fresca Group

listed as Fresca · Claimed by Nokoyawa · listed 3 years ago

100 GB

Data size

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 23, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Nokoyawa
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Food & Agriculture
Listed on leak site: May 23, 2023
Data size: 100 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Fresca Group is a leading privately-owned supplier of fresh fruit, vegetables and salad crops in the United Kingdom, headquartered in Paddock Wood, Kent. The group operates across growing, wholesaling, importing, logistics and packing, serving major UK retailers, hospitality, foodservice and cruise line sectors. It reports a combined annual group turnover of £523 million across its portfolio of businesses.

Industry: Fresh Produce Supply & Distribution
Address: The Fresh Produce Centre, Transfesa Road, Paddock Wood, Kent, TN12 6UT, United Kingdom
Founded: 2004

Attack summary

Severity: high — 100 GB of private data has been confirmed exfiltrated and published by the group against a major UK food supply company with £523M turnover; while the data types are not itemised, the scale and disclosed status represent significant business data exposure from a large critical supply chain operator.

Nokoyawa claims to have exfiltrated approximately 100 GB of private data from Fresca Group and has published it, indicating confirmed exfiltration with data now fully disclosed. No encryption claim is explicitly stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Private business data (unspecified, ~100 GB)

What the group claims

Founded in 2004, Fresca is headquartered in Kent, United Kingdom. Fresca Group is a largest privately-owned supplier of fruit and vegetables in the UK.We have successfully downloaded ~100GB of private data. Enjoy...

Sources

Victim sitefrescagroup.co.uk
Leak posthttp://nokoleakb76znymx443veg4n6fytx6spck6pc7nkr4dvfuygpub6jsid.onion/leak/6453dfd40e3b22dab5b18c38

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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