Mt Barker Co-Operative

Mt Barker Co-Operative was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to qilin in February 2026. The organization, operating in the Agriculture and Food Production sector in Australia, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.

qilin operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.

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Intelligence correlations link this incident to 1 vulnerability(ies) including CVE-2026-0257, which may have been leveraged as initial access vectors or for lateral movement.