DisclosureLens
GLOBALMalwareAgriculture & FoodAgricultureRansomwareSarcomaRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

Gedco

bd_ae2d0afd035f05f5 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 9, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Gedco

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sarcoma 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: 2024-10-09

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Our expertise in international sourcing enables us to access products from pulse and grain producing countries in North & South America, Eastern & Western Europe, Latin America, East & Far East Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Suppliers and buyers can also always be assured of fair and just dealings when working with GEDCO, knowing they can rely on GEDCO’s performance and can trust compliance with the quality of the products purchased. Our main export market focus is the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which includes Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Proudly a Canadian family trading company, bringing in over 100 years of experience in the industry, GEDCO was founded in 1984 by Mr. Mohamed Reda and Mrs. Haifa Reda. Since its inception, GEDCO has specialized in the trade of lumber, agricultural products and pulses. Second generation partners, Mr. Saleh Reda and Ms. Iman Reda, soon ambitiously expanded the company’s product base to include spices, dried fruit, nuts, rice and milk powder.Geo: Canada - Leak size: 17,5 GB Archive - Contains: SQL

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 9, 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 2024-07-09

sarcoma

According to ransomware.live, Sarcoma is a ransomware group that debuted in October 2024, immediately ranking among the top three most active groups globally and surpassing 116 documented victims by mid-2025, targeting mid-market companies across manufacturing, retail, healthcare, legal, and business services with roughly 50% of victims in the United States.

141 victims claimed globally141 tracked hereFull profile →