Disclosure context

About Lorenz

Lorenz is a ransomware group that emerged in January 2020 and operates primarily for financial gain, having claimed approximately 78 victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a focus on English-speaking nations including the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Lorenz primarily targets healthcare, finance, automotive, construction, and retail sectors, suggesting they may opportunistically attack organizations with valuable data and limited security resources rather than following a specific geopolitical agenda. While detailed technical analysis of their attack methodology has not been extensively published by major security firms like Mandiant or government agencies such as CISA, the group appears to follow typical ransomware deployment patterns common to financially-motivated cybercriminal organizations. Public documentation of specific high-profile campaigns, notable victims, or significant law enforcement actions against Lorenz remains limited in open-source intelligence reporting. Based on available victim data extending beyond 2020, the group appears to have maintained some level of operational activity, though comprehensive assessments of their current operational status have not been widely published by authoritative sources in the threat intelligence community. The group has been linked to 78 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 12, 2020; most recent post December 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 5, 2023Joy Cone Co, Joy Baking group, BoDeans Baking, Altesa listed by Lorenzon the group's public leak site

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, Joy Cone Co, Joy Baking group, BoDeans Baking, Altesa is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Joy Cone Co, Joy Baking group, BoDeans Baking, Altesa

Claimed by Lorenz · listed 3 years ago

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 5, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lorenz
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Food & Agriculture
Listed on leak site: Apr 5, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Joy Cone Co., operating under the Joy Baking Group umbrella, is a 100% employee-owned, U.S.-based manufacturer of ice cream cones and related baked cone products, including cake cones, waffle products, sugar cones, and gluten-free cones. The company serves consumer retail, food service, and industrial markets and has been in operation for approximately 100 years. Associated entities BoDeans Baking and Altesa appear to be related manufacturing or baking brands within the same group.

Industry: Baked Goods & Ice Cream Cone Manufacturing
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 1918

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no details on the volume, type, or sensitivity of data are available from the leak post; absent evidence of regulated PII, financial, or medical data at scale, medium is appropriate.

The Lorenz ransomware group claims an attack on Joy Cone Co. and affiliated entities (Joy Baking Group, BoDeans Baking, Altesa), with the disclosed status indicating data has been published. No specific ransom amount, data size, or description of exfiltrated content was provided in the captured leak post.

medium

Sources

Victim sitejoycone.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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