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Cold Front Distribution

Claimed by GLOBAL SECRET · listed 7 days ago

473 GB (890,775 Files, 51,621 Folders)
Data size
890775 files records
7d
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 11, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
GLOBAL SECRET
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Transportation
Listed on leak site
Aug 11, 2026
Data size
473 GB (890,775 Files, 51,621 Folders)
Records
890775 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cold Front Distribution is a regional Direct Store Delivery (DSD) supplier specializing in frozen food distribution across a fifteen-state region since 2000. They supply ice cream, frozen pizza, and frozen prepared foods to convenience stores, drug stores, military commissaries, and retail grocery outlets, with headquarters in Westminster, Colorado and additional divisions in Wisconsin, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

Industry
Frozen Food Distribution & Logistics (DSD)
Address
7301 Federal Blvd. Suite 200, Westminster, CO 80030 (Mountain Division headquarters)
Employees
201-500
Founded
2000

Attack summary

Severity: high — Large-scale confirmed exfiltration (473 GB) from operational business affecting supply chain; likely contains customer PII, financial records, and sensitive business operations for a multi-state distributor. No indication of regulated data breach (medical/banking), but scale and business sensitivity warrant high classification.

GLOBAL SECRET claims to have encrypted Cold Front's systems and exfiltrated 473 GB of company data (890,775 files, 51,621 folders). The group lists the attack as disclosed, indicating data has been posted or threatened for publication.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business operational files
  • Customer databases
  • Financial records
  • Employee information
  • Supply chain data
  • Merchandise management systems

What the group claims

A leading DSD supplier specializing in grocery and foodservice supply chain solutions across a fifteen-state region. The company focuses on delivering high-quality products, including ice cream, frozen pizza, and frozen prepared foods, to various clients such as convenience stores, drug stores, military commissaries, and retail grocery outlets. Their services include turn-key convenience store programs and effective merchandise management solutions.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Country: Colorado, United States | Website: coldfrontdist.com | Revenue: $120.1 Million | Industry: Transportation | Employees: 201-500 Employees | Properties: 473 GB (890,775 Files, 51,621 Folders)
"Cold Front Distribution" - is a leading DSD supplier specializing in grocery and foodservice supply chain solutions across a fifteen-state region. The company focuses on delivering high-quality products, including ice cream, frozen pizza, and frozen prepared foods, to various clients such as convenience stores, drug stores, military commissaries, and retail grocery outlets. With a commitment to customer success, Cold Front aims to optimize operations and enhance profitability for businesses of all sizes. Their services include turn-key convenience store programs and effective merchandise management solutions.

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Cold Front Distribution

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 days ago

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Disclosure context

About GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET is an active ransomware group with 19 confirmed victims as of August 2026. It operates a single onion leak site. The limited victim count suggests a relatively early or low-volume operation. The group has been linked to 33 public disclosures across our corpus. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 11, 2026Cold Front Distribution listed by GLOBAL SECRETon the group's public leak site
Data size
473 GB (890,775 Files, 51,621 Folders)
Records
890775 files

Other recent disclosures by GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET has been linked to 33 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full GLOBAL SECRET dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation sector, which has 47 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cold Front Distribution is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by GLOBAL SECRET means Cold Front Distribution appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on GLOBAL SECRET'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.