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US Installation Group, Inc.

Claimed by Aurora · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 4, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Aurora
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Aug 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

US Installation Group, Inc. (USIG) is a multi-entity installation services company founded by Bruce DeLuca, operating through 15+ legal entities under MRS Holdings. The company performs over 100,000 installations annually across 33 markets in 14 US states.

Industry
Installation Services & Construction
Address
Boca Raton, Florida, US

Attack summary

Severity: low — Data has been published but no proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory are described in the available post excerpt. No operational impact or data category sensitivity is stated.

The aurora group claims to have attacked USIG and published data. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration method, or data categories are provided in the available leak post excerpt.

low

What the group claims

Founded by Bruce DeLuca in Boca Raton, Florida, USIG operates through 15+ legal entities under MRS Holdings, performing over 100,000 installations annually across 33 markets in 14 states.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About aurora

Aurora is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations through targeted attacks across multiple sectors. Given its recent emergence, limited public documentation exists regarding the group's specific country of origin or affiliations with established ransomware operations, though its targeting patterns suggest a professional operation potentially operating as an independent entity rather than a known Ransomware-as-a-Service model. The group has demonstrated a preference for attacking business-critical sectors including business services, consumer services, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services, with documented attacks spanning the United States, Canada, the Maldives, and Great Britain, though specific initial access vectors and technical methodologies remain undocumented by major threat intelligence firms. With only seven known victims documented since April 2026, Aurora represents a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families, though its cross-sector targeting approach and international victim scope indicate deliberate selection criteria rather than opportunistic attacks. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited victim count and recent emergence suggest either a highly selective targeting approach or a nascent operation still developing its operational capabilities. The group has been linked to 27 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post August 4, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 4, 2026US Installation Group, Inc. listed by auroraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by aurora

aurora has been linked to 27 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full aurora dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,684 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, US Installation Group, Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means US Installation Group, Inc. 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on aurora'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.