Was West African Resources ltd hit by ransomware?

West African Resources ltd was listed by the Deadlock ransomware operation (Australia), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Deadlock ransomware group?

Deadlock is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the West African Resources ltd breach?

Deadlock published data attributed to West African Resources ltd. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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West African Resources ltd

Claimed by Deadlock · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Deadlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site: Jul 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

West African Resources Ltd (ASX: WAF) is an Australian mid-tier gold mining and exploration company headquartered in Subiaco, Western Australia. The company operates primary gold mining and development projects in Burkina Faso, West Africa, with projected annual gold production peaking at 596,000 ounces in 2030.

Industry: Gold Mining & Exploration
Address: Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
Founded: 2006

Attack summary

Severity: low — The post excerpt contains only a company description with no detail on attack method, data exfiltration, proof files, or operational impact. Status is marked 'data_published' but no evidence, ransom demand, or data inventory is described in the provided material.

Deadlock ransomware group claims to have conducted an attack on West African Resources Ltd; however, the leak post excerpt provided contains no detail on the nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or specific data compromised.

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What the group claims

West African Resources Limited (ASX: WAF) isan Australia-based, mid-tier gold mining and exploration companywith its primary operations located in Burkina Faso, West Africa . Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in Subiaco, Western Australia, and focuses on the acquisition, development, and mineral processing of high-grade gold assets.

Sources

Victim sitewww.westafricanresources.com

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Deadlock

Deadlock is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 10 known victims across a geographically diverse target set. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time, a comprehensive technical profile cannot be fully established. Based on available victimology data, the group has demonstrated a targeting pattern spanning Singapore, China, Sweden, Spain, and Nigeria, suggesting an opportunistic or globally distributed operational scope rather than a regionally focused campaign. Targeted sectors include manufacturing, business services, telecommunications, and financial services, indicating a preference for industries with high operational dependencies and potential for significant disruption, which is consistent with financially motivated ransomware actors seeking maximum leverage for ransom payment. No confirmed attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS affiliation, or specific tooling has been publicly documented by authoritative sources as of this profile's preparation. Due to the group's nascent operational timeline and the limited volume of publicly verified intelligence, analysts should treat this profile as preliminary and subject to significant revision as additional technical indicators, victim disclosures, and research reporting become available. Continued monitoring is advised given the cross-sector and cross-regional targeting behavior observed in this early operational phase. The group has been linked to 95 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 15, 2026; most recent post July 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 26, 2026West African Resources ltd listed by Deadlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Deadlock

Deadlock has been linked to 95 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 Energy & Utilities sector, which has 166 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, West African Resources ltd is reported in Australia, a country with 185 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Deadlock means West African Resources ltd 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Deadlock'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.