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Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, šumarstva i ribarstva

Claimed by Barracuda · listed 6 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 9, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Barracuda
Status
Data leaked
Country
Croatia
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, šumarstva i ribarstva (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) is the Croatian government agency responsible for agricultural policy, forestry management, and fisheries oversight.

Industry
Government – Agriculture

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of personally identifiable information (PII) at large scale from a government ministry, including photos and phone numbers of Croatian residents, combined with sensitive agricultural and contractual records. Government data compromise at this scale constitutes critical severity.

Barracuda claims to have exfiltrated complete database dumps and documents from the Ministry's main file server, including agricultural registration records and personal data of Croatian residents (names, phone numbers, photos) and details of agricultural activities, along with Ministry contracts and confidential documents.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • agricultural registration records
  • personal data (names, surnames, phone numbers, photos)
  • agricultural activity details
  • Ministry contracts
  • confidential government documents

What the group claims

We have complete database dumps from the Ministry of Agriculture and all documents from its main file server. They contain information about residents of Croatia, including agricultural registration records and personal data such as phone numbers, surnames, first names, and photos, as well as details about each resident’s agricultural activities. We also have Ministry of Agriculture contracts and other confidential documents. Recently, the authorities claimed that no data breach had occurred. It’s unfortunate that this was a lie. https://mps.hr | Status: selling | $50,000

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Barracuda

Barracuda is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, though limited public reporting exists given its recent emergence and relatively small confirmed victim count of four organizations. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with established threat actors or ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems have not been publicly confirmed by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time. Based on available victim telemetry, Barracuda has demonstrated a targeting pattern focused on manufacturing, healthcare, and technology sector organizations, with victim distribution concentrated across China, the United States, and South Korea, suggesting either opportunistic targeting within these regions or deliberate selection based on perceived ransom-paying capacity; specific details regarding initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methodology, or data exfiltration practices remain undocumented in open-source reporting. No major high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly documented, which is consistent with the group's nascent operational timeline and low confirmed victim count. Given its first observation date of August 2026 and the absence of substantial public intelligence, Barracuda should be considered an emerging and closely monitored threat whose full capabilities, affiliations, and operational scope remain to be established through continued tracking by the security research community. The group has been linked to 23 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2026; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 9, 2026Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, šumarstva i ribarstva listed by Barracuda on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Barracuda

Barracuda has been linked to 23 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 777 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, šumarstva i ribarstva is reported in Croatia, a country with 3 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Barracuda means Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, šumarstva i ribarstva 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 Barracuda'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.