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Donco & Sons Inc.

listed as Donco and Sons Inc. · Claimed by Meow · listed 2 years ago

22m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 31, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Meow
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Aug 31, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Donco & Sons Inc. is a family-owned and operated company with over 40 years of experience in the sign and lighting trade. Based in Anaheim, California, they specialize in services for the Oil and Retail Industries, providing everything from multiple site programs to single site projects across Southern California counties.

Industry
Sign and Lighting Services & Maintenance
Address
2871 E. Blue Star Street, Anaheim, CA 92806, United States

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory are advertised. The leak post contains only generic marketing language with no technical evidence of compromise or operational impact. Unverified disclosure with no substantiation.

The Meow group claims to have attacked Donco & Sons Inc. and published data. No specific details are provided about encryption, exfiltration methods, or the nature of data compromised.

low

What the group claims

Donco and Sons Inc. is a family-owned business specializing in high-quality, sustainable agricultural products. With a commitment to environmentally friendly practices, the company offers a range of goods including fresh produce, grains, and other farm-derived items. Known for its dedication to quality and customer service, Donco and Sons Inc. has built a reputation for reliability and community involvement.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Meow

Meow is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in November 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group has compromised at least 145 known victims in a short operational timeframe, demonstrating rapid scaling of their criminal enterprise. Based on their targeting patterns, Meow appears to focus heavily on English-speaking countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada representing their primary victim base, though they have also expanded operations to include targets in Italy and Colombia. The group shows a preference for attacking business services organizations, manufacturing companies, healthcare institutions, and agriculture and food production entities, suggesting they may employ broad-spectrum targeting rather than highly specialized sector focus. Their emergence in late 2023 and the significant victim count achieved in a relatively short period indicates either a sophisticated operation with experienced operators or potential links to existing ransomware ecosystems, though specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence sources. Given the recent timeline of their emergence and limited public reporting from established security researchers, detailed technical analysis of their tools, tactics, and procedures remains sparse. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting, though comprehensive law enforcement actions or major disruption efforts have not been publicly documented. The group has been linked to 145 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 24, 2023; most recent post November 19, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 31, 2024Donco and Sons Inc. listed by Meowon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Meow

Meow has been linked to 145 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 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Donco and Sons Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Meow means Donco and Sons Inc. 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Meow'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.