Was First International Food co Ltd hit by ransomware?

First International Food co Ltd was listed by the Mallox ransomware operation (United Kingdom), 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 Mallox ransomware group?

Mallox 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 First International Food co Ltd breach?

Mallox published data attributed to First International Food co Ltd (~5 MB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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First International Food co Ltd

Claimed by Mallox · listed 3 years ago

5 MB

Data size

42m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 25, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Mallox
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Food & Agriculture
Listed on leak site: Jan 25, 2023
Data size: 5 MB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

First International Food Co Ltd (FiFood) is a Saudi Arabian food import and distribution company established in 1425 AH (approximately 2004) and headquartered in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The company imports high-quality international food products across categories including juices, dairy, ice cream, culinary products, butchery, and food grains, and serves as the strategic distributor in the Eastern Region for the Danish Kuwaiti Dairy Company (KDD). Its website domain (fifood.sa) reflects its Saudi base despite the UK country attribution in the leak record.

Industry: Food Import & Distribution
Address: P.O. Box 8204, Dammam 31482, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Founded: 2004

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) with a downloadable archive, confirming exfiltration occurred; however, the data volume is very small (5 MB) and the content of the archive is unverified, making it unclear whether regulated or sensitive personal data is involved at scale.

The Mallox ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from First International Food Co Ltd and has published a password-protected archive (approximately 5 MB) via AnonFiles as proof of the data disclosure. No ransom amount was stated and no encryption claim was explicitly made in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Exfiltrated company files (password-protected archive, ~5 MB)

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

DATA: https://anonfiles.com/4ew5MbT6y1/fifood_zipPASSWORD: !BJYY-U_;pvuz.dlzbd~*>W;YX;x$?fM

Sources

Victim sitefifood.sa

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Mallox

**Overview:** Mallox is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, operating as a relatively new player in the ransomware ecosystem with a focus on extracting monetary payments from victim organizations across multiple industry sectors. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service operation. **Attack Methodology:** Limited public documentation exists regarding Mallox's specific attack vectors and technical capabilities, though their successful compromise of 49 documented victims suggests they employ conventional ransomware deployment methods including data encryption and likely extortion tactics to pressure victims into payment. **Notable Campaigns:** Mallox has demonstrated a preference for targeting technology companies, business services, and manufacturing sectors, with their operations showing particular concentration in the United Kingdom, India, and the United States, though specific high-profile incidents have not been widely publicized by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. **Current Status:** The group remains active as of recent threat intelligence reporting, continuing to conduct ransomware operations across their preferred geographic and sectoral targets. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 15, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 25, 2023First International Food co Ltd listed by Malloxon the group's public leak site

Data size: 5 MB

Other recent disclosures by Mallox

Mallox has been linked to 49 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 Food & Agriculture sector, which has 187 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, First International Food co Ltd is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Mallox means First International Food co 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Mallox'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.