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Cropwise (Syngenta Group)

Claimed by ShadowByt3$ · listed 3 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 2, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
ShadowByt3$
Status
Data leaked
Country
Switzerland
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Jun 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cropwise is a digital agriculture platform operated by Syngenta Group that provides agronomists, farm managers, and field staff with tools for crop monitoring, precision agronomy analytics, and fleet telematics. The platform integrates satellite imagery, GIS data, and machinery diagnostics to support farm operations across commercial agricultural operations.

Industry
Precision Agriculture & Digital Farming Solutions

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive operational and geospatial data affecting commercial farm operations. Exposure includes precise farm coordinates, crop treatment records, and machinery tracking that could enable theft, sabotage, or competitive espionage. Personal data of employees (names, emails, phone numbers) also compromised. While data volume is modest (10.4 MB), the nature is strategically sensitive to agricultural enterprises.

The ShadowByt3$ group claims to have breached Cropwise's operations and accounts portals, exfiltrating 10.4 MB of data. The group alleges theft of user credentials, geospatial farm boundary data, crop analytics, pesticide/fertilizer application records, and GPS telematics logs from connected farm machinery.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • User identities and corporate email addresses
  • Phone numbers of agronomists and field staff
  • Encrypted password hashes and session tokens
  • API keys for machinery data feeds
  • GIS boundary files with field coordinates and property lines
  • NDVI satellite imagery and vegetation analysis datasets
  • Historical crop growth tracking and yield prediction models
  • Pesticide and fertilizer application records
  • Crop types, seeding timelines, and harvesting schedules
  • GPS location logs and machinery telematics from tractors and combines
  • Machine operator shift and operational speed data

What the group claims

We have breached you and gained access to the following portals: https://operations.cropwise.com/d/users/sign_in https://accounts.cropwise.com/signin proof: https://mega.nz/folder/25hkSLgY#ELjJaFie-TfES9Z_47KFZA company url: https://operations.cropwise.com/ We are ShadowByt3$ a Extortion as a service group. You have been breached and 10.4MB was stolen. It may seem small but it can affect you every way imaginable. Don't believe us the following below was stolen: 👤 User Identities and Access Credentials - Account Directory Data: Full names, corporate email addresses, and phone numbers of registered agronomists, regional farm managers, and field staff. - Authentication Metadata: Encrypted password hashes, session tokens, or configured API keys utilized to link automated machinery data feeds to the web dashboard. 🚜 Precision Agronomy and Farm Metrics - Geospatial Boundaries: High-resolution GIS boundary files detailing the exact shapes, coordinates, and property lines of privately owned or leased commercial fields. - Vegetation and Scouting Analyses: Historical NDVI satellite imagery datasets [CWO: Tools for effective monitoring of your crops' condition syngenta.co.za], past growth tracking matrices, field problem zone flags, and yield prediction models. - Operational Treatment Records: Deep operational histories documenting exact pesticide or fertilizer applications, crop types, seeding timelines, and harvesting schedules. 🚛 Telematics and Fleet Diagnostics - Machinery Tracking Logs: Real-time and archived GPS location paths generated by connected tractors, combines, or sprayers. These logs map out the specific work shifts, operational speeds, and field locations of individual machine drivers. If you contact us then we won't leak it and show proof that we deleted it. Also we will tell you how to secure your company so you don't get breached again. We are giving you 48 hours (approx 3 days) to contact us which would be by June 4th 2026. If you fail to reach out to us we will maximize damage by giving it to news outlets, swatting victims, and we will email everyone affected and you would be the next headline. All you have to do is pay 1 million in bitcoin or monero and it goes away.

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About ShadowByt3$

ShadowByt3$ is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in February 2026, appearing to be financially motivated based on its ransomware operations. The group's country of origin and any potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited intelligence available on this newly identified threat actor. Given the minimal public documentation available, the group's attack methodology, tools, and operational tactics have not been sufficiently analyzed or reported by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. No notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, with only one known victim reported to date and no specific sector targeting patterns identified. The current operational status of ShadowByt3$ remains unclear due to the limited intelligence available on this recently emerged and relatively unknown ransomware operation. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 25, 2026; most recent post August 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 2, 2026Cropwise (Syngenta Group) listed by ShadowByt3$on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by ShadowByt3$

ShadowByt3$ has been linked to 21 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 777 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cropwise (Syngenta Group) is reported in Switzerland, a country with 39 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ShadowByt3$ means Cropwise (Syngenta Group) 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-CH (Switzerland), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on ShadowByt3$'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.

Cropwise (Syngenta Group) data breach — ShadowByt3$ ransomware leak (2026) · Darkfield