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GLOBALMalwareAgriculture & FoodAgricultureRansomwareCactusRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

Select Sires Member Cooperative

bd_97baa7eb9f957a88 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 5, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cactus on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Agriculture and Food ProductionDiscovered: 2025-02-17
Listing address (not linked): https://cactusbloguuodvqjmnzlwetjlpj6aggc6iocwhuupb47laukux7ckid.onion/posts/ALLWEST

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

<p>Business Services.<\/p><p>“All West Select Sires Inc. provides bovine genetics and related services. The company offers services such as select mating services, estrus synchronization, artificial insemination school, breeding box plans, technicians, and programs for genetic advancement.”<\/p><p>Website: <a href="https://ssmcoop.com/">https://ssmcoop.com/<\/a><\/p><p>Revenue : $22.5M<\/p><p>Address: PO Box 1803, Turlock, California, 95381, United States<\/p><p>Phone Number: ([REDACTED-PHONE]<\/p><p><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Download link #1:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/ALLWEST/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/ALLWEST/PROOF/<\/a><\/p><p><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Mirror:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/ALLWEST/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/ALLWEST/PROOF/<\/a><\/p><p><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>DATA DESCRIPTIONS:<\/strong><\/mark> Corporate documents, contracts\agreements, production data, corporate correspondence,financial documents, employee personal folders\files, etc.<br><img src="/uploads/2021_July_Exec_Comm_Meet_d5ce083eb6.png" alt="2021 (July) Exec. Comm. Meet.png"><img src="/uploads/W9_for_dad_9154c20552.png" alt="W9 for dad.png"><img src="/uploads/Glen_Updated_Semen_Report_5ce618a1e6.png" alt="Glen Updated Semen Report.png"><img src="/uploads/102023_I_Ncome_Statement_Internal_f5be487d60.png" alt="102023 INcome Statement Internal.png"><img src="/uploads/Form_1099_SA_2024_76c96ff383.png" alt="Form 1099-SA_2024.png"><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 5, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-07-03

cactus

According to ransomware.live, The CACTUS ransomware is said to have emerged around March 2023. The group became known for exploiting vulnerabilities to gain initial access and maintain a presence within the organization's infrastructure. There is little known information about the ransomware group, except that it emerged on the mentioned date and, following encryption, a text file named 'cAcTuS.readme.txt' would be created. Additionally, encrypted files were altered to the '.cts1' extension, and data exfiltration and victim extortion were conducted through the use of the service known as Tox. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs

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