Was PennEastern Engineers, LLC hit by ransomware?

PennEastern Engineers, LLC was listed by the CMD ORGANIZATION ransomware operation (United States) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

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PennEastern Engineers, LLC

Claimed by CMD ORGANIZATION · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedMay 14, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: CMD ORGANIZATION
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: United States
Sector: Engineering
Listed on leak site: May 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PennEastern Engineers, LLC is a Pennsylvania-based civil engineering firm whose principals — Paul Pasonick, Andrew Pasonick, Michael Amato, and Daryl Pawlush — specialise in commercial and residential land development, municipal infrastructure, sanitary sewer, storm water, pavement, flood control, and erosion/sedimentation control projects. The firm also has an affiliated architecture practice, PennEastern Architects, LLC, led by registered architects including Emil Jarolen, who has practiced architecture since 1974 and holds registrations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. Services span design, specification writing, cost estimating, project bidding, construction observation, and project management.

Industry: Civil & Land Development Engineering

Attack summary

Severity: medium — PennEastern is listed alongside other victims with large exfiltration claims, but no specific data volume or proof files are attributed to PennEastern itself, and no encryption or operational disruption is confirmed; the post is an initial listing without direct evidence of regulated/sensitive data at scale for this specific victim.

The CMD ORGANIZATION group claims to have exfiltrated data from multiple victims listed in the same post; the post does not state a specific data volume attributed solely to PennEastern Engineers, LLC, but the group advertises 843 GB, 611 GB, and 7.36 TB figures for co-listed victims, indicating a pattern of large-scale exfiltration. No encryption claim is explicitly made for PennEastern; the listing appears to be an initial disclosure without a stated ransom demand.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Engineering project files
Design specifications
Cost estimates
Project management documents
Principal and personnel information

What the group claims

Engineering firm with principals Paul Pasonick, Andrew Pasonick, Michael Amato and Daryl Pawlush, specializing in commercial and residential land developments, municipal projects, sanitary sewer projects, storm water projects, pavement projects, flood control projects and soil erosion and sedimentation control plans.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

IT Security organization est. 2026.
The principals of PennEastern Engineers, LLC are Paul Pasonick, Andrew Pasonick, Michael Amato and Daryl Pawlush. All principals have extensive experience in commercial and residential land developments, municipal projects, sanitary sewer projects, storm water projects, pavement projects, flood control projects and soil erosion and sedimentation control plans. In addition, each has assisted in design, specification writing, cost estimating, project bidding and bid review, construction observation and project management of the various projects. The Principals of PennEastern Architects, LLC are Andrew Pasonick, Emil Jarolen and Norman Manovsky. Design Principal Emil Jarolen has been practicing Architecture since 1974 and has been a Registered Architect in the State of Pennsylvania since 1978. In addition, Mr. Jarolen is Registered as an Architect in the States of Maryland, New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. 
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Sources

Leak posthttp://cmdnkiqjije2tllr3biee2sjgj3i4robg2cbtilbnytdhh2wy3syrlyd.onion

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About CMD ORGANIZATION

CMD ORGANIZATION is a ransomware group first observed in May 2026, with financial gain assessed as the primary motivation based on available indicators. Due to the extremely limited public reporting on this group, comprehensive technical attribution and operational details have not yet been documented by major threat intelligence vendors or government agencies such as CISA or the FBI. Based on available data, CMD ORGANIZATION has recorded a single known victim, with targeting concentrated in the United States and focused on the engineering sector, suggesting either a nascent operation in its early stages or a highly selective targeting methodology. No publicly documented information is currently available regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, extortion tactics, tooling, or affiliations with other known threat actors or ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems. No notable high-profile campaigns, law enforcement actions, or confirmed rebranding activity has been publicly attributed to this group at this time. CMD ORGANIZATION should be considered an emerging or low-visibility threat actor warranting continued monitoring as additional victims or technical indicators may surface and enable more comprehensive profiling by the security research community. The group has been linked to 15 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2026; most recent post June 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 14, 2026PennEastern Engineers, LLC listed by CMD ORGANIZATIONon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Engineering sector, which has 7 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, PennEastern Engineers, LLC is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by CMD ORGANIZATION means PennEastern Engineers, LLC appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on CMD ORGANIZATION'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.