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Herbal Canada Online

listed as herbalcanadaonline.com · Claimed by Funksec · listed 1 year ago

17m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 7, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Funksec
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Listed on leak site
Feb 7, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Herbal Canada Online is a Canadian-based e-commerce retailer specializing in Ayurvedic herbal supplements, natural remedies, and wellness products including juices (Ras), powders (Churan), oils, tablets, and traditional formulations. The company sources sustainably and markets to customers seeking natural and organic health solutions.

Industry
Health & Wellness - Herbal Supplements & Natural Products

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status confirmed with no ransom demand suggests opportunistic disclosure. E-commerce platforms typically hold customer PII and financial transaction data; however, no specific proof count, data volume, or detailed inventory was provided in the leak post. Severity is medium pending confirmation of actual data categories and scale.

FuncsecGroup claims to have compromised Herbal Canada Online and published data. The specific nature of exfiltration (data type, volume) and whether encryption occurred are not detailed in the available leak post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer accounts and credentials
  • E-commerce transaction records
  • Customer contact information
  • Order history

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Herbal Canada Online is a company that specializes in providing high-quality natural herbal supplements and health products. Their offering includes a variety of herbal wellness items ranging from vitamins, nutritional supplements, to essential oils, sourced sustainably. This Canadian-based online marketplace endorses holistic health promotion and focuses on serving customers who prioritize natural and organic products to maintain their wellbeing.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About funksec

Funksec is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in December 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim acquisition approach. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though they appear to operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model based on available intelligence. With 172 documented victims across multiple countries, Funksec has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, primarily focusing on the United States, India, Brazil, Spain, and Israel, with particular emphasis on technology companies, government entities, educational institutions, and business services organizations. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics, techniques, and procedures remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence firms, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests an established operational capability. Given the group's recent discovery in December 2024, there have been no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have drawn significant public attention from law enforcement or cybersecurity organizations. Funksec remains active as of early 2025, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 172 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 4, 2024; most recent post March 18, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 7, 2025herbalcanadaonline.com listed by funksecon the group's public leak site

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, herbalcanadaonline.com is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

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