Ransomware Attacks on Agriculture and Food Production in the UAE
Ransomware groups have claimed 2 agriculture and food production organisations in the United Arab Emirates since 2020, which is 1.8% of all attributed UAE claims. Medusa accounts for 1 of them. The earliest claim in this sector was recorded on and the most recent on .
Data as of , drawn from 192 leak-site claims collected by ransomware.live. How this data is collected and filtered.
Which groups claim UAE agriculture and food production organisations
All groups| Name | Relative volume | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medusa | 1 | 50% | |
| Tengu | 1 | 50% | |
| Total | 2 | 100% |
How Agriculture and Food Production claims spread across periods
UAE Agriculture and Food Production holds 2 claimed organisations, both recorded during 2025 and none before or since.
Agriculture and Food Production ranks twelfth among UAE sectors
Agriculture and Food Production ranks twelfth of 13 UAE sectors, far below the average of 8.6 claims per active sector. Two distinct groups appear here, one claim each. Food production sits closer to national supply resilience than its claim count suggests.
Both claims fall inside 2025
Leak-site monitoring recorded the first Agriculture and Food Production claim on 24 January 2025. The second followed on 23 October 2025. The sector shows no claims in any other period. Medusa and Tengu account for one claimed organisation each.
Two claims in one year describe no trend. This page exists so the sector breakdown stays complete and so the figure can be tracked as it moves. Food production also sits closer to national supply resilience than its claim count suggests.
What this means for UAE organisations
- Read 2 claims as a small sample, not as evidence that food production carries low ransomware exposure in the UAE.
- Map your obligations under the UAE Personal Data Protection Law, which reaches employee and supplier records as well as customer data.
- Separate processing and cold chain control systems from corporate systems, because spoilage starts before recovery finishes.
- Identify the equipment that cannot be patched, then compensate with segmentation rather than waiting for a vendor.
- Confirm that traceability records survive an outage, since food safety obligations do not pause for an incident.
- Rehearse running a shift without the systems that schedule it, because the first hours decide what is lost.
- Check remote access held by equipment vendors, and time limit it rather than leaving it standing.
- Read this page alongside Manufacturing, since the two sectors share both equipment types and recovery constraints.
