Barkal Food Industries
meow listed this organization on its leak site on Aug 27, 2024.
- Listing date
- Aug 27, 2024
- Attack date
- Aug 27, 2024
Listing text
Barkal Food Industries is a dynamic company specializing in the production and distribution of high-quality food products. With a focus on innovation and sustainability, Barkal offers a diverse range of items, including snacks, beverages, and specialty foods. Committed to excellence, the company ensures rigorous quality control and ethical sourcing to meet the evolving needs of global consumers.
About the group
meow posted its first listing on Nov 24, 2023 and has listed 145 organizations to date.
Meow emerged in 2022 (resurfacing aggressively in 2024), initially operating as a RaaS using the Conti v2 codebase before transitioning to a data-extortion-only model — selling stolen data rather than encrypting files — with a heavy focus on US healthcare and medical research organizations.
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What does this listing mean?
Ransomware groups move data out of the organization before encrypting systems and threaten to publish it if the ransom is not paid. This method is called double extortion.
The listing shows that the group claims to have targeted the organization. Whether the data was published is shown by the later status of the listing.
What should you do if your organization is listed on a leak site?
- Record the listing and any published sample files; do not visit the leak site from the corporate network.
- Isolate affected systems and preserve logs without deleting them.
- Determine which data left the organization; if personal data is involved, review notification obligations with your legal team.
- Make any decision about the ransom demand together with legal, management and incident response.
- Do not bring systems back online before the attacker’s entry point is closed.
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