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New Cooperative -- an Iowa-based farm service provider -- has been hit with a ransomware attack, continuing a streak of incidents affecting agricultural companies this year. 

The company did not respond to requests for comment but confirmed to Bloomberg News that it was suffering from a "cybersecurity incident" that impacted some of its devices and systems. It told Bloomberg reporters that it took systems offline to "contain the threat."

 

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Ransomware expert Allan Liska shared screenshots of the BlackMatter ransomware leak page with ZDNet, showing the group had troves of financial documents, network information for multiple companies involved with New Cooperative, the social security numbers and personal information for employees, R&D files and the source code for a farmer technology platform called Soil Map. 

The ransomware group claims to have 1,000GB of data and has set a timer that they say expires at noon on September 25.

Liska confirmed that other documents show BlackMatter is demanding a $5.9 million ransom.

On social media, multiple security researchers leaked chats between negotiators for New Cooperative and BlackMatter operators. Representatives for New Cooperative repeatedly say they are part of the much-discussed "16 critical sectors" that US President Joe Biden said was off-limits to ransomware actors in conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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I received a call from Russia last week and from South Korea today

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