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Brancaia

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 2 years ago

20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 31, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Sarcoma
Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Oct 31, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Brancaia is a Tuscan wine producer founded over 40 years ago by the Widmer family, known for organic, high-quality wines. The company also produces olive oil, grappa, and gin, and operates hospitality services including tastings, tours, and an on-site osteria bar at its estate in Radda in Chianti.

Industry
Wine Production & Agritourism
Address
Località Poppi, 53017 Radda in Chianti, Siena, Italy
Founded
1980

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration of unspecified database and file content; no indication of regulated PII or financial data at scale. Wine business operational data and possibly customer information at risk, but sensitivity level moderate without further detail.

Sarcoma claims to have exfiltrated files and SQL databases from Brancaia. The group states data was obtained and published, though no specific data inventory or ransom demand is mentioned in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • SQL databases
  • Business files

What the group claims

Brancaia Our wine reflects hard work. Behind it stands a clear, uncompromising vision. For over 40 years, the Widmer family has led Brancaia with passion and dedication. What began as a bold challenge is now top-tier winemaking, founded on quality and authenticity.Geo: Italy - Leak size: GB Archive - Contains: Files,SQL

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 31, 2024Brancaia listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sarcoma dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Brancaia is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means Brancaia 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Sarcoma'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.