Ransomware victim disclosure

Fruit of the Earth

listed as fote.com · Claimed by blackbasta · listed 1 year ago

990 GB

Data size

17m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 18, 2024
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: blackbasta
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Dec 18, 2024
Data size: 990 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Fruit of the Earth is an American family-owned skin care company founded in 1980, based in Grand Prairie, Texas. The company specializes in aloe vera and nature-inspired personal care products including skin care, sun care, and health care items, emphasizing ethical sourcing and environmentally friendly practices.

Industry: Personal Care & Cosmetics Manufacturing
Address: 3325 W. Trinity Blvd, Grand Prairie, TX 75050, United States
Founded: 1980

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 990 GB including sensitive business data (financial, payroll, R&D), employee PII, and confidential information. No encryption mentioned, but data publication is stated.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 990 GB of data from Fruit of the Earth, including financial records, employee personal data, confidential documents subject to NDAs, and research & development materials.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial data and accounts
Payroll records
Employee personal data and documents
Confidential data and NDAs
Research & development materials

What the group claims

Fruit of the Earth, a prominent skin care company based in Grand Prairie, Texas. Founded in 1980, Fruit of the Earth specializes in producing high-quality aloe vera and nature-inspired products, including skin care, sun care, and health care items. The company operates as a family-owned business and emphasizes ethical sourcing and environmentally friendly practices in its production processes.SITE: www.fote.com Address : 3325 W Trinity Blvd Grand Prairie, Texas 75050 United StatesTEL#: (817) 510-1600ALL DATA SIZE: ≈990gb 1. Financial data, Accounts, Payroll 2. Personal employees data and docs 3. Confidential data, NDA 4. R&D & etc…

Sources

Victim sitefote.com
Leak posthttp://stniiomyjliimcgkvdszvgen3eaaoz55hreqqx6o77yvmpwt7gklffqd.onion/?id=fote.com

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About blackbasta

Black Basta is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat actor, compromising over 500 organizations globally within its first two years of operation. The group is suspected to have ties to Russia-based cybercriminal networks and operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. Black Basta primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns, exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, and compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, then deploys custom tools and living-off-the-land techniques to move laterally through networks before deploying their ransomware payload that uses ChaCha20 encryption. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. Notable campaigns include attacks on major manufacturing companies, healthcare organizations, and critical infrastructure entities primarily across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy, with the group showing particular focus on business services, manufacturing, technology, agriculture and food production, and transportation/logistics sectors. As of 2024, Black Basta remains active and continues to evolve its tactics, techniques, and procedures while maintaining a steady pace of victim recruitment and ransom collection operations. The group has been linked to 523 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2022; most recent post January 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 18, 2024fote.com listed by blackbastaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 990 GB

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