Was alansarioman.com hit by ransomware?

alansarioman.com was listed by the Embargo ransomware operation (Oman), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Embargo ransomware group?

Embargo is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the alansarioman.com breach?

Embargo published data attributed to alansarioman.com (~1 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Al Ansari Global

listed as alansarioman.com · Claimed by Embargo · listed 2 years ago

1 TB

Data size

18m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 9, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

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

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Al Ansari Global is an integrated provider of building, infrastructure, and engineering solutions established in 1975 in Oman. The company operates across Oman, GCC countries, and India with over 4,000 employees, offering services in HVAC, plumbing, building systems, integration technologies, and infrastructure utilities.

Industry: Building, Infrastructure & Engineering Solutions
Address: Oman (headquarters); operations in GCC and India
Employees: 4000
Founded: 1975

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 1 TB of critical and confidential business data from a large multinational engineering company with 4,000+ employees. Data has been published. While not regulated personal data at scale, the volume and sensitivity of engineering/infrastructure data for a major regional contractor poses significant operational and competitive risk.

The Embargo group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 1 TB of critical and confidential data from Al Ansari Oman's network. The group has published the data without stated ransom demands.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Critical business data
Confidential operational records
Network files (1 TB total)

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 2 years ago

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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 40 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 21, 2024; most recent post June 30, 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

Other recent disclosures by Embargo

Embargo has been linked to 40 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Embargo dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial sector, which has 426 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, alansarioman.com is reported in Oman, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Embargo means alansarioman.com appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Monitor for the data appearing on Embargo's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.