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International Chemical Company

listed as International Chemical Co. · Claimed by Barracuda · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 26, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Barracuda
Status
Data leaked
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Sep 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

International Chemical Company (ICC) manufactures specialty metalworking fluids, industrial cleaners, rust preventatives, and custom chemical formulations. The company serves major clients in the oil production sector despite its small size of 4-5 employees.

Industry
Chemical Manufacturing – Specialty Metalworking Fluids & Industrial Cleaners
Employees
4-5

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of business-critical data from a small company with major oil sector clients; the attacker describes nearly unrestricted network access and complete file extraction. Risk of downstream harm to high-value clients and potential supply chain impact.

Barracuda claims to have extracted all files and documents from the company's infrastructure after gaining access through poor data security. The group states it analyzed the infrastructure over a week and moved freely across the network, obtaining a complete data dump.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • company documents
  • internal files
  • client information
  • business records

What the group claims

International Chemical Company (ICC) manufactures specialty metalworking fluids, industrial cleaners, rust preventatives, and custom chemical formulations. We have extracted the most important files from their main file server and possess data on their sales, formulas, patents, manufacturing, contracts, and partners. For example, we possess the full formulation and manufacturing instructions for I.C.C.’s patented Biodraulic hydraulic oil. And even more than that. It is available for sale to competitors. Victim website: https://e-icc.com | Severity: HIGH | Size: 90 GB | Status: selling | $50,000

The leak post

captured from the group's site
List of companies that, for one reason or another, refused to cooperate with us. Data of these companies will either be sold to third parties or released for free. Subsequently, we will personally handle these documents and write investigative reports and exposés on these companies to damage their reputations.
International Chemical Company (ICC) manufactures specialty metalworking fluids, industrial cleaners, rust preventatives, and custom chemical formulations. We have extracted the m...
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Sources

Source

Indexed 4 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 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2026; most recent post September 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 26, 2026International Chemical Co. listed by Barracuda on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Barracuda

Barracuda has been linked to 21 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Barracuda dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Barracuda means International Chemical Co. 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.