Disclosure context

About obscura

Obscura is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has compromised at least 33 known victims since their emergence, demonstrating rapid operational capabilities despite their recent entry into the ransomware landscape. Limited public documentation exists regarding their country of origin, operational structure, or affiliations with established ransomware families, though their targeting pattern suggests either opportunistic attacks or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. Their victim profile spans multiple sectors including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and construction, with geographic focus on the United States, Malaysia, Portugal, Egypt, and Denmark, indicating either broad targeting criteria or access to varied attack infrastructure across different regions. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting from major security vendors and law enforcement agencies, specific details regarding their technical capabilities, encryption methods, data exfiltration practices, or ransom demands remain undocumented in open-source intelligence. The group appears to remain active as of late 2025, though insufficient time has elapsed to determine their long-term operational sustainability or potential law enforcement attention. The group has been linked to 33 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 5, 2025; most recent post January 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 12, 2025ACE Forwarding listed by obscuraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 847 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ACE Forwarding is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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ACE Forwarding

Claimed by obscura · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 12, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: obscura
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Dec 12, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ACE Forwarding is a US-based global transport and logistics company founded in 1994, originally operating a single truck serving the Detroit airport. The company offers air freight, crating, expediting, international forwarding, intermodal transport, warehousing, and brokerage services, operating a fleet of over 30 company-owned vehicles and partnering with carriers worldwide.

Industry: Freight Forwarding & Logistics
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1994

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published by the threat actor, indicating exfiltration has occurred, but no specific sensitive regulated data (e.g., PII at scale, medical, financial) has been described, no data volume is stated, and the leak post provides no substantive proof beyond mirroring the company's public website text.

The ransomware group Obscura claims to have published data belonging to ACE Forwarding, with the disclosure status marked as data_published. The leak post content mirrors the company's public website description of its crating services, and no specific data volume or ransom demand has been stated.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company operational data
Freight and logistics records
Customer shipment information

What the group claims

Ace Forwarding offers several methods of protecting your freight. Full-service crating and repackaging are available in a variety of materials. Our full time staff of carpenters will custom-tailor crating and packaging to fit your specific needs.

Sources

Victim siteaceforwarding.com

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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