Was www.coconutboard.gov.in hit by ransomware?

www.coconutboard.gov.in was listed by the tengu ransomware operation (India), 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 tengu ransomware group?

tengu 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 www.coconutboard.gov.in breach?

tengu published data attributed to www.coconutboard.gov.in. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Coconut Board of India

listed as www.coconutboard.gov.in · Claimed by Tengu · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 20, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Tengu
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Jan 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Coconut Board of India (www.coconutboard.gov.in) is a statutory body under the Government of India, functioning under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. It is responsible for the development of the coconut industry in India, including research, promotion, and regulation of coconut cultivation and products. It operates as a public sector entity serving the agricultural sector nationwide.

Industry: Government Agricultural Regulatory Body

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is an Indian government statutory body, meaning exfiltrated data likely includes official government records, potentially citizen/farmer PII, and regulatory data — qualifying as sensitive public-sector data exposure with data_published status confirmed.

The Tengu ransomware group claims to have published data ('data_published' status) obtained from the Coconut Board of India's systems. The leak post does not explicitly state the volume of data exfiltrated or encrypted specifically for this victim, but the group has disclosed the data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government agency records
Agricultural regulatory data
Potentially employee/personnel records
Potentially farmer/industry stakeholder data

What the group claims

The Coconut Development Board (CDB) focuses on the promotion and development of coconut cultivation and processing in India. It offers a range of products including virgin coconut oil, desiccated coconut, and coconut milk, catering to both domestic and international markets. The board supports farmers and producer companies through various schemes and technology missions aimed at enhancing productivity and sustainability. Its intended clients include coconut farmers, producers, and consumers interested in coconut-based products.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About tengu

Tengu is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a geographically diverse targeting approach across 49 documented victims. The group has primarily focused their operations on Morocco, the United States, India, Italy, and Indonesia, suggesting either opportunistic targeting or specific interest in these regions' economic sectors. Their victim profile spans multiple industries including technology, manufacturing, public sector, and agriculture and food production, indicating a broad targeting strategy rather than sector-specific focus. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their origin, affiliation status, technical methodology, encryption techniques, and operational structure remain largely undocumented by major cybersecurity agencies and research organizations. No notable high-profile campaigns or law enforcement actions have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or prominent security researchers at this time. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established sources have yet to be published due to their nascent presence in the ransomware landscape. The group has been linked to 59 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 23, 2025; most recent post May 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 20, 2026www.coconutboard.gov.in listed by tenguon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by tengu

tengu has been linked to 59 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 Public Sector sector, which has 260 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.coconutboard.gov.in is reported in India, a country with 255 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by tengu means www.coconutboard.gov.in 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on tengu'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.