Disclosure context

About Embargo

Embargo is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on high-value targets across multiple sectors. The group has been observed targeting victims predominantly in the United States, Singapore, India, and France, with particular emphasis on technology, healthcare, manufacturing, business services, and financial sectors. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details about their country of origin, operational structure, and technical methodologies remain largely unconfirmed by established security research organizations. With 37 known victims identified since their emergence, Embargo appears to follow established ransomware operational patterns typical of financially-motivated cybercriminal groups, though comprehensive analysis of their attack vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics has not yet been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. The group's targeting of critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare and financial services aligns with broader ransomware trends observed throughout 2024, though specific notable campaigns or high-profile attacks have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reporting. As of current observations, Embargo appears to remain active, though the limited timeframe since their emergence and sparse public documentation makes definitive assessment of their operational status challenging without additional confirmed reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 38 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 21, 2024; most recent post March 31, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 9, 2025alansarioman.com listed by Embargoon the group's public leak site

Data size: 1 TB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial sector, which has 333 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, alansarioman.com is reported in OM, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.

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alansarioman.com

Claimed by Embargo · listed 1 year ago

1 TB

Data size

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 9, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Embargo
Status: Data leaked
Country: OM
Sector: Financial
Listed on leak site: Jan 9, 2025
Data size: 1 TB

What the group claims

Al Ansari is a provider of integrated building, infrastructure and engineering solutions. The group was established in 1975 in response to the growing needs of the infrastructure and construction developments in Oman. Over the years, the group has earned a reputation of delivering high quality service in a timely manner. Al Ansari has undertaken many vital construction projects that have contributed to the development of the local infrastructure. Al Ansari is registered as an"Excellent Grade" company with the Tender Board of Oman & is also certified by the Quality Management Standard ISO 9001:2008. With a work force of over 4,000, the group strongly believes in investing into HRD (Human Resource Development) initiatives to enhance individual's skill and competencies and produce "Extraordinary" human capital. - Around 1 TB of critical and confidential data were downloaded from the Al Ansari Oman company's network

Sources

Victim sitealansarioman.com
Leak posthttp://embargobe3n5okxyzqphpmk3moinoap2snz5k6765mvtkk7hhi544jid.onion/#/post/44

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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