Disclosure context

About Malas

**Overview**: Malas is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has demonstrated significant activity levels, compromising approximately 170 victims within its first operational period. **Origin & Affiliation**: Public documentation regarding Malas' specific country of origin and operational structure remains limited in available CISA, FBI, and security researcher reports. The group's targeting patterns across both Western nations and Russia suggest either independent operations or a complex operational structure that crosses traditional geopolitical boundaries. **Attack Methodology**: Detailed technical analysis of Malas' specific attack vectors, tools, and encryption methods has not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from major security organizations. Based on victim distribution patterns, the group appears to employ effective initial access techniques that enable them to successfully compromise diverse organizational targets across multiple countries and industry sectors. **Notable Campaigns**: While Malas has accumulated a substantial victim count of 170 organizations, specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have not been prominently featured in public security advisories or law enforcement communications. The group's targeting of media, technology, manufacturing, and transportation sectors across Italy, Russia, Germany, France, and the United States indicates a broad operational scope. **Current Status**: Given the limited public documentation available from authoritative sources, the current operational status of Malas remains unclear based on verified threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 170 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 9, 2023; most recent post May 18, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 18, 2023Fort Rolins Collection Agency listed by Malason the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Fort Rolins Collection Agency is reported in Indonesia, a country with 38 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Harita Group

listed as Fort Rolins Collection Agency · Claimed by Malas · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 18, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Malas
Status: Data leaked
Country: Indonesia
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: May 18, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Harita Group is an Indonesian conglomerate engaged in mining (coal and minerals), palm oil plantation development, and logging operations. The group is described in the leak post as operating across Indonesia with a Swiss partner, Glencore, in resource extraction activities. It is a large diversified natural resources company operating in Indonesia.

Industry: Natural Resources & Mining (Coal, Palm Oil, Logging)

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims confirmed exfiltration and public disclosure of corporate data including internal emails from a large conglomerate; while the exact volume is unstated, the data_published status and operational scale of Harita Group elevate this beyond medium. No confirmed regulated PII or medical data mentioned, so not critical.

The Malas ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data including internal emails after the victim ignored their ransom note and restored from backups; the group states it is now publishing the stolen data ('restoring their backups for all of you'), indicating confirmed data exfiltration and publication.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal emails
Corporate communications

What the group claims

<p>They act like they don&rsquo;t see🙈 our ransom note🗒 , or they just don&rsquo;t negotiate🤝with cyberterrorists💣. They restore their backups and think ignoring us🙉 makes us go away. So now we also restore their backups, for all of you.</p> <p>Harita Group is dedicated to mining, logging rainforests🐒😭 to plant palm oil monocultures, coal, and anything else that&rsquo;ll make them a profit through destroying their countries&rsquo; environment. Their Swiss🇨🇭🇭 partner Glencore is well documented for it&rsquo;s human rights and environmental abuses in Latin America, including hiring paramilitary killers to drive indigenous off their lands so they can steal it. We think it&rsquo;s likely they operate the same in Indonesia and journalists will like to look through their emails

Sources

Leak posthttp://malas2urovbyyavjzaezkt5ohljvyd5lt7vv7mnsgbf2y4bwlh72doqd.onion/posts/fortrolins/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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