DisclosureLens
GLOBALMalwareManufacturingManufacturingRansomwareCactusRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

Galata chemicals

bd_aac55b446d36e36b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 12, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Galata chemicals →

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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2024-12-23
Listing address (not linked): https://cactusbloguuodvqjmnzlwetjlpj6aggc6iocwhuupb47laukux7ckid.onion/posts/GALATA

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

<p>Chemicals &amp; Related Products.<br><br>“We are a leading producer and supplier of PVC, CPVC, Engineering Thermoplastics, and Polyolefin Additives, serving many industries worldwide, including Building and Construction, Packaging, Medical, and Automotive from our manufacturing facilities spanning three continents.”<br><br>Website: <a href="https://www.galatachemicals.com/">https://www.galatachemicals.com/<\/a><br><br>Revenue : $100M<br><br>Address: 3 Harborside Plaza 10 Ste 307, Jersey City, New Jersey, 07302, United States<br><br>Phone Number: ([REDACTED-PHONE]<br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Download link #1:<\/strong><\/mark> &nbsp;<a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/GALATA/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/GALATA/PROOF/<\/a><br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Mirror:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/GALATA/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/GALATA/PROOF/<\/a><br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>DATA DESCRIPTIONS:<\/strong><\/mark> Personal identifiable information (including top managers), personal and corporate confidential data, correspondence, customer documents, engineering data, projects, drawings, NDAs, financial data, IT dept information, legal and litigation docs, HR data, etc.<\/p><p><img src="/uploads/Internals_for_K005_19c5127cc1.png" alt="Internals for K005.png"><img src="/uploads/Passport_Jamal_Siddiqi_1206090e6d.png" alt="Passport (Jamal Siddiqi).png"><img src="/uploads/5_1_1_2_3_FILED_Plaintiff_s_Complaint_e90bda18be.png" alt="5.1.1.2.3_FILED Plaintiff's Complaint.png"><img src="/uploads/Passport_Bachmann_bff0a20f18.png" alt="Passport - Bachmann.png"><img src="/uploads/7_1_3_1_1_FINAL_Phase_I_ESA_and_LECR_Kemira_Aberdeen_MS_July

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 12, 2024

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

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

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

249 tracked hereFull profile →