Was Wine Works Australia hit by ransomware?

Wine Works Australia was listed by the direwolf 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 direwolf ransomware group?

direwolf 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 Wine Works Australia breach?

direwolf published data attributed to Wine Works Australia. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Wine Works Australia

Claimed by Direwolf · listed 11 months ago

10m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 25, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Direwolf
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Aug 25, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Wine Works Australia is a wine sales and marketing company based in Australia that represents local and international wineries in export markets. The company assists wineries in starting or expanding their export operations by leveraging knowledge of wine and international markets to develop sales strategies. It focuses on building sustainable and profitable relationships with business partners across different regions.

Industry: Wine Sales & Export Marketing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating some data has been released, but there is no detail on the type, volume, or sensitivity of the data exposed. No ransom amount, data size, or proof count is stated, and the leak post description appears AI-generated with no specific evidence claims, limiting severity assessment to medium.

The direwolf ransomware group claims to have attacked Wine Works Australia and has published data related to the company. The specific nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and the volume of data involved are not detailed in the leak post.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Wine Works Australia is a wine sales and marketing company that represents local and international wineries in export markets. They focus on establishing sustainable and profitable relationships with business partners. The company uses its extensive knowledge of wine and international markets to develop effective strategies to drive wine sales in different regions. They offer services to wineries seeking to start or expand their export operations.

Sources

Source

Indexed 11 months ago

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Disclosure context

About direwolf

Direwolf is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2025 with primarily financial motivations, having targeted 71 known victims across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, with no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies, though their targeting patterns indicate a focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and transportation/logistics sectors across Malaysia, the United States, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan. No major high-profile campaigns or significant ransomware demands have been publicly attributed to this group by CISA, FBI, or established security researchers such as Mandiant. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation, their current operational status and long-term threat posture remain unclear, requiring continued monitoring by the cybersecurity community to establish a more comprehensive threat profile. The group has been linked to 75 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 27, 2025; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DIRE WOLF.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 25, 2025Wine Works Australia listed by direwolfon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by direwolf

direwolf has been linked to 75 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 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Wine Works Australia is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by direwolf means Wine Works Australia 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 direwolf'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.