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Gedco

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 2 years ago

17.5 GB
Data size
21m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 9, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Sarcoma
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Listed on leak site
Oct 9, 2024
Data size
17.5 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

GEDCO is a Canadian family-owned trading company founded in 1984, specializing in the international sourcing and export of agricultural commodities, lumber, and food products. With over 100 years of combined industry experience, the company focuses primarily on markets in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), operating from Toronto with a sister office in Amman, Jordan. GEDCO manages global supply chains and logistics for bulk commodity movement.

Industry
International Commodity Trading (agricultural products, lumber, pulses, spices, dried fruit, nuts, rice, milk powder)
Address
1033 Bay Street #212, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3A5
Founded
1984

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 17.5 GB including structured database contents (SQL) from an international trading company. While not explicitly regulated data like healthcare or government secrets, this volume of business intelligence, customer/supplier relationships, and financial records represents significant operational and commercial damage for a trading firm dependent on confidential supplier/buyer networks.

The Sarcoma group claims to have exfiltrated 17.5 GB of data from GEDCO, including SQL database contents. The group has published the data; no encryption-only claim is made, indicating operational access and data theft.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • SQL databases
  • Business records
  • Customer/supplier data
  • Financial records
  • Operational documents

What the group claims

Our expertise in international sourcing enables us to access products from pulse and grain producing countries in North & South America, Eastern & Western Europe, Latin America, East & Far East Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Suppliers and buyers can also always be assured of fair and just dealings when working with GEDCO, knowing they can rely on GEDCO’s performance and can trust compliance with the quality of the products purchased. Our main export market focus is the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which includes Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Proudly a Canadian family trading company, bringing in over 100 years of experience in the industry, GEDCO was founded in 1984 by Mr. Mohamed Reda and Mrs. Haifa Reda. Since its inception, GEDCO has specialized in the trade of lumber, agricultural products and pulses. Second generation partners, Mr. Saleh Reda and Ms. Iman Reda, soon ambitiously expanded the company’s product base to include spices, dried fruit, nuts, rice and milk powder.Geo: Canada - Leak size: 17,5 GB Archive - Contains: SQL

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 9, 2024Gedco listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site
Data size
17.5 GB

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sarcoma dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Gedco is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means Gedco 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Sarcoma'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.