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Malca-Amit

listed as malca-amit.com · Claimed by Abyss · listed 2 years ago

30 GB
Data size
25m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 18, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Abyss
Status
Data leaked
Country
Israel
Sector
Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site
Jun 18, 2024
Data size
30 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Malca-Amit is a global logistics and security firm specializing in the transportation, storage, and handling of high-value goods including diamonds, precious metals, fine art, and digital assets. The company operates a network of vaults and facilities across major international centres (New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Zurich, Toronto, Bangkok) and serves luxury brands, high-net-worth individuals, and international banks.

Industry
Luxury Goods Logistics & Secure Storage

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Malca-Amit handles sensitive data for high-net-worth individuals, international banks, and luxury goods transactions. Exfiltration of 30 GB of operational data plus VMware images and database backups exposes customer identities, asset locations, transaction details, and security infrastructure. The global vault network and client roster present significant fraud and targeting risk.

The Abyss group claims to have exfiltrated 30 GB of data from Malca-Amit along with VMware images totalling approximately 1.2 TB. The post references internal hostnames (CHKC-NGSQL.MAFE.COM, HKG-TSPLS.MAFE.COM) suggesting access to virtualization infrastructure and databases.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer records (high-net-worth individuals, banks, luxury brands)
  • Logistics & shipment data
  • Vault & facility operational data
  • VMware virtual machine images
  • Database records (MAFE domain SQL servers)
  • Potentially customs, insurance, and transaction records

What the group claims

malca-amit.com 30Gb + VMware images CHKC-NGSQL.MAFE.COM HKG-TSPLS.MAFE.COM 1.2Tb

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Abyss

Abyss is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on English-speaking countries. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Their attack methodology and specific tools have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their victim profile of 87 organizations indicates they employ effective initial access techniques to compromise business services, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. The group demonstrates a clear geographic preference for targets in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, suggesting either language preferences or specific regional access capabilities. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively limited public documentation from established security researchers, detailed information about notable campaigns, encryption methods, or law enforcement actions remains scarce. Abyss appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the lack of extensive public analysis by major threat intelligence organizations suggests they may operate at a smaller scale compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group has been linked to 103 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2023; most recent post June 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 18, 2024malca-amit.com listed by Abysson the group's public leak site
Data size
30 GB

Other recent disclosures by Abyss

Abyss has been linked to 103 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Abyss dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, malca-amit.com is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Abyss means malca-amit.com 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-IL (Israel), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Abyss'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.