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Mafate Business Enterprises

listed as MAFATE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE · Claimed by D4Rk4Rmy · listed 1 year ago

12m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 8, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
D4Rk4Rmy
Status
Data leaked
Country
South Africa
Listed on leak site
Jul 8, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mafate Business Enterprises is a 100% Black-owned South African mining and construction services company established in 2002. Operating for over 20 years, it provides ready-mix concrete, asphalt, chrome ore extraction, plant hire, and procurement services to major mining operators across South Africa, with a workforce of 500+ personnel.

Industry
Mining Supply & Services, Construction, Industrial Engineering
Address
Steelport, South Africa (headquarters); 6296 Donnelly Plaza, Ratkeville, Bahamas (listed on site)
Employees
500+
Founded
2002

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a brief company description extracted from the public website with no specific proof files, screenshots, or detailed claims about data exfiltration. No evidence of actual breach impact is provided.

The d4rk4rmy group claims to have breached Mafate Business Enterprises and published data. The post provides no details of the scope, nature of exfiltration, or encryption activity.

low

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company operational data
  • Project details

What the group claims

https://mafate.co.za It was established at Steelport, under the entrepreneurial spirit of its Director Mr Mahlaka Lucas Makuwa in the year 2002. it is a competent and competitive black owned Mining supply Company that delivers quality products and services into the local…

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About d4rk4rmy

d4rk4rmy is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting of high-value sectors including financial services and technology organizations. With only 18 documented victims to date, the group appears to be in its early operational phase, demonstrating a geographically diverse targeting approach across the United States, Taiwan, Brazil, Poland, and Monaco, with particular focus on financially lucrative sectors such as financial services, technology, transportation and logistics, and hospitality and tourism industries. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model remain largely undetermined by major cybersecurity organizations such as CISA, FBI, or prominent security research firms. The group's current operational status appears active based on the recent timeline of their emergence, though comprehensive analysis of their capabilities, notable campaigns, and potential law enforcement actions is limited due to insufficient publicly available intelligence from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 18 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post August 16, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 8, 2025MAFATE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE listed by d4rk4rmyon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by d4rk4rmy

d4rk4rmy has been linked to 18 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full d4rk4rmy dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, MAFATE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE is reported in South Africa, a country with 27 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by d4rk4rmy means MAFATE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE 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, ECS-CSIRT (South Africa), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on d4rk4rmy'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.