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Cropwise (Syngenta Group)

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jun 2, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Cropwise (Syngenta Group)

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Shadowbyt3$ 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: 2026-06-02

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

We have breached you and gained access to the following portals: https://operations.cropwise.com/d/users/sign_in https://accounts.cropwise.com/signin proof: https://mega.nz/folder/25hkSLgY#ELjJaFie-TfES9Z_47KFZA company url: https://operations.cropwise.com/ We are ShadowByt3$ a Extortion as a service group. You have been breached and 10.4MB was stolen. It may seem small but it can affect you every way imaginable. Don't believe us the following below was stolen: 👤 User Identities and Access Credentials - Account Directory Data: Full names, corporate email addresses, and phone numbers of registered agronomists, regional farm managers, and field staff. - Authentication Metadata: Encrypted password hashes, session tokens, or configured API keys utilized to link automated machinery data feeds to the web dashboard. 🚜 Precision Agronomy and Farm Metrics - Geospatial Boundaries: High-resolution GIS boundary files detailing the exact shapes, coordinates, and property lines of privately owned or leased commercial fields. - Vegetation and Scouting Analyses: Historical NDVI satellite imagery datasets [CWO: Tools for effective monitoring of your crops' condition syngenta.co.za], past growth tracking matrices, field problem zone flags, and yield prediction models. - Operational Treatment Records: Deep operational histories documenting exact pesticide or fertilizer applications, crop types, seeding timelines, and harvesting schedules. 🚛 Telematics and Fleet Diagnostics - Machinery Tracking Logs: Real-time and archived GPS location paths generated by connected tractors, combines, or sprayers. These logs map out the specific work shifts, operational speeds, and field locations of individual machine drivers. If you contact us then we won't leak it and show proof that we deleted it. Also we will tell you how to secure your company so you don't get breached again. We are giving you 48 ho

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jun 2, 2026

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 2026-02-17

shadowbyt3$

According to ransomware.live, ShadowByt3$ is a ransomware-as-a-service group first observed in October 2025, using multi-method extortion and communicating via Telegram and Tox, with a very small confirmed victim list suggesting it remains in early-stage operation.

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