Was lso.com hit by ransomware?

lso.com was listed by the Embargo ransomware operation (Lesotho), 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 lso.com breach?

Embargo published data attributed to lso.com (~500 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Lone Star Overnight (LSO)

listed as lso.com · Claimed by Embargo · listed 7 months ago

500 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 6, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Embargo
Status: Data leaked
Country: Lesotho
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Dec 6, 2025
Data size: 500 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lone Star Overnight (LSO), headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a leading regional parcel delivery company with over 30 years of operation. LSO offers a range of shipping services including overnight, ground, e-commerce, and Mexico delivery options, serving customers across multiple industries such as automotive, food & beverage, healthcare, and retail. The company operates a network of service centers primarily within the southern United States.

Industry: Regional Parcel Delivery & Shipping Logistics
Address: Austin, Texas, USA

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims both encryption of systems and exfiltration of ~500 GB of data, with data now published. As a parcel delivery company, the dataset likely contains customer PII, shipping records, and business-sensitive information at significant scale, constituting confirmed exfiltration of substantial business and potentially regulated data.

The Embargo ransomware group claims to have encrypted LSO's systems and exfiltrated approximately 500 GB of data in total, publishing the data after the company allegedly failed to engage with their ransom demands.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Exfiltrated business data (~500 GB total)
Operational/logistics records
Potentially customer shipping data
Potentially employee/HR data

What the group claims

Lone Star Overnight (LSO) is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and, over the last 30 years, has become a leading regional parcel delivery company. LSO has a netwo... - LSO does not understand encryption so we demonstrated for them how encryption works. We have ~500 GB data total includin...

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 months 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

December 6, 2025lso.com listed by Embargoon the group's public leak site

Data size: 500 GB

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 Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, lso.com is reported in Lesotho.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Embargo means lso.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.