Was Compañía Agricola San Felipe hit by ransomware?

Compañía Agricola San Felipe was listed by the Malas ransomware operation (Chile), 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 Malas ransomware group?

Malas 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 Compañía Agricola San Felipe breach?

Malas published data attributed to Compañía Agricola San Felipe. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Compañía Agricola San Felipe

Claimed by Malas · listed 3 years ago

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 18, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Malas
Status: Data leaked
Country: Chile
Sector: Food & Agriculture
Listed on leak site: May 18, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Compañía Agricola San Felipe is an agricultural company based in Chile, as indicated by its name and country listing. The name suggests operations in or around the San Felipe region, likely involved in crop production, land management, or related agribusiness activities. No further details are available from the leak post or a public website.

Industry: Agricultural Production & Farming

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published (exfiltrated and disclosed), indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no detail on data volume, sensitivity, or presence of regulated PII/financial records is available to elevate to high or critical.

The group Malas claims to have exfiltrated files from Compañía Agricola San Felipe and has published the data, framing the action as ideologically motivated retaliation against what they characterise as predatory collection practices targeting struggling individuals.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unspecified company files

What the group claims

<p>Your work is collecting and repossessing from struggling people? Don&rsquo;t complain when we come to repossess your own files

Sources

Leak posthttp://malas2urovbyyavjzaezkt5ohljvyd5lt7vv7mnsgbf2y4bwlh72doqd.onion/posts/sanfelipe/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Malas

**Overview**: Malas is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has demonstrated significant activity levels, compromising approximately 170 victims within its first operational period. **Origin & Affiliation**: Public documentation regarding Malas' specific country of origin and operational structure remains limited in available CISA, FBI, and security researcher reports. The group's targeting patterns across both Western nations and Russia suggest either independent operations or a complex operational structure that crosses traditional geopolitical boundaries. **Attack Methodology**: Detailed technical analysis of Malas' specific attack vectors, tools, and encryption methods has not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from major security organizations. Based on victim distribution patterns, the group appears to employ effective initial access techniques that enable them to successfully compromise diverse organizational targets across multiple countries and industry sectors. **Notable Campaigns**: While Malas has accumulated a substantial victim count of 170 organizations, specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have not been prominently featured in public security advisories or law enforcement communications. The group's targeting of media, technology, manufacturing, and transportation sectors across Italy, Russia, Germany, France, and the United States indicates a broad operational scope. **Current Status**: Given the limited public documentation available from authoritative sources, the current operational status of Malas remains unclear based on verified threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 170 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 9, 2023; most recent post May 18, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 18, 2023Compañía Agricola San Felipe listed by Malason the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Malas

Malas has been linked to 170 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 Food & Agriculture sector, which has 187 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Compañía Agricola San Felipe is reported in Chile, a country with 16 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Malas means Compañía Agricola San Felipe 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 Malas'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.