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Bom Calçado, S.A.

listed as BOMCALCADO · Claimed by Mallox · listed 3 years ago

42m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 25, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Mallox
Status
Data leaked
Country
Portugal
Sector
Retail & Consumer
Listed on leak site
Jan 25, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bom Calçado, S.A. is a Portuguese company founded in May 1993, specialising in the distribution and retail of footwear and accessories for men, women, and children. It operates approximately 46 stores across Portugal, Angola, and Mozambique under the Stara and Sapatarias 999 retail brands, as well as a wholesale/franchising channel.

Industry
Footwear & Accessories Retail
Address
Sede: Vale de Lobos – Lote 6, Lojas B e C, Guimarota, 2410-078 Leiria, Portugal; Escritórios/Armazém: Estrada das Albogadas – Eira da Pedra, 2595-504 Fátima, Portugal
Founded
1993

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published (two downloadable archives released publicly), indicating successful exfiltration of business data from a multi-country retail operation; the exact nature and volume of the data is unconfirmed but publication constitutes a significant breach.

The Mallox ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Bom Calçado, S.A. and has published two password-protected archive files (DATA PART 1 and DATA PART 2) as proof of the breach, with no ransom amount stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Exfiltrated company files (archive part 1)
  • Exfiltrated company files (archive part 2)

The group's post references roughly 2 proof files.

What the group claims

DATA PART 1: https://anonfiles.com/O7N1M7Tfy2/bomcalcado1_zip DATA PART 2: https://anonfiles.com/K7O7MaTdy7/bomcalcado2_zip PASSWORD: Q|&(A&\?Le($PxD=c,_cj*hLl@+|!,K#

Sources

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, 2023BOMCALCADO listed by Malloxon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Mallox

Mallox has been linked to 49 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Mallox dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail & Consumer sector, which has 157 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, BOMCALCADO is reported in Portugal, a country with 28 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Mallox means BOMCALCADO 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, CERT.PT (Portugal), 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.