Was Trust Trailer Transit hit by ransomware?

Trust Trailer Transit was listed by the METAENCRYPTER ransomware operation 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.

Who is the METAENCRYPTER ransomware group?

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

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Trust Trailer Transit

Claimed by METAENCRYPTER · listed 23 hours ago

130 GB

Data size

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 28, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: METAENCRYPTER
Status: Listed for ransom
Sector: Transportation
Listed on leak site: Sep 28, 2026
Data size: 130 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Trust Trailer Transit is a transportation company. No public website or detailed company information is available from the leak post.

Industry: Transportation & Logistics

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 130 GB of data from a transportation company with a structured public-disclosure threat. Transportation sector data can include operational, employee, and customer information of business-critical sensitivity. The group's track record of following through on disclosure escalation increases urgency.

METAENCRYPTER claims to have exfiltrated 130 GB of data from Trust Trailer Transit. The group operates a tiered-disclosure model: upon listing, a file manifest and sample files are published; if contact is not established by a deadline, partial data is released; if unresolved, the full dataset becomes publicly available.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company files and documents
Operational data

What the group claims

Nationwide power-only transport services with 40+ years of experience providing dependable and accurate trailer transport solutions. Revenue: $22M.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

This platform publishes data belonging to organizations that have elected to forgo negotiation entirely.Upon a company's initial listing, the complete manifest of exfiltrated files is disclosed alongside a curated selection of representative samples. Should the organization fail to establish contact prior to the stated deadline, a portion of the compromised data is released into the public domain.Should all subsequent attempts at resolution prove fruitless, the full volume of acquired data is made permanently and unconditionally available to the general public — accessible without restriction to journalists, researchers, competitors, and any other interested party. Simultaneously, formal notifications are dispatched to the relevant data protection and regulatory authorities: the and in the United States; the , , , and the across Europe; the (Singapore), (South Korea), and (Japan) throughout Asia — all of whom are mandated to investigate and impose penalties upon the affected organization.In the event that a mutual agreement is reached, every file in our possession is permanently and irrevocably destroyed, and all references to that organization are expunged from this platform in th…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Trust Trailer Transit

Sources

Leak posthttp://metacrptmytukkj7ajwjovdpjqzd7esg5v3sg344uzhigagpezcqlpyd.onion

Source

Indexed 23 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About METAENCRYPTER

METAENCRYPTER is a ransomware group first observed in September 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, having claimed at least 13 known victims across multiple high-value sectors since its emergence. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with established threat actors or ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems remain unconfirmed in publicly available reporting from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time. Based on victim telemetry, METAENCRYPTER demonstrates a clear focus on industrial and technology-oriented sectors, including manufacturing, home appliances and HVAC, high-tech engineering and industrial automation, pharmaceuticals, automotive manufacturing, and medical technology and healthcare, suggesting deliberate targeting of organizations with high operational disruption thresholds and potential willingness to pay ransoms to restore critical processes. The group's primary attack vectors, tooling, encryption mechanisms, and use of double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in open-source intelligence reporting as of this writing, likely reflecting the group's recent emergence and relatively limited victim count. Geographic targeting patterns indicate a concentration on victims in the United States, Japan, Germany, Singapore, and Canada, consistent with a financially motivated actor prioritizing economically developed nations with technology-heavy industrial bases. Given the group's recent first observation date and limited public attribution data, METAENCRYPTER should be considered an emerging threat requiring continued monitoring, and organizations in the targeted sectors are advised to follow CISA and FBI guidance on ransomware defense pending further technical reporting. The group has been linked to 31 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 16, 2026; most recent post September 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 28, 2026Trust Trailer Transit listed by METAENCRYPTER on the group's public leak site

Data size: 130 GB

Other recent disclosures by METAENCRYPTER

METAENCRYPTER has been linked to 31 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full METAENCRYPTER dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation sector, which has 47 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by METAENCRYPTER means Trust Trailer Transit 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on METAENCRYPTER'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.