Disclosure context

About Stormous

Stormous is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2022, operating primarily with financial motivations and has claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 165 victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's country of origin remains unclear from publicly documented sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation from major security firms indicates the group employs common ransomware tactics, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively detailed in reports from CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers. Their targeting appears geographically diverse with a focus on Spain, the United States, France, UAE, and Brazil, while showing particular interest in technology, hospitality and tourism, government, and business services sectors, though many of their victims span unspecified industries. As of current reporting, Stormous appears to remain an active threat, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent families that receive extensive coverage from major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 220 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 22, 2022; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 27, 2025usbmemorydirect.com listed by Stormouson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, usbmemorydirect.com 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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USB Memory Direct

listed as usbmemorydirect.com · Claimed by Stormous · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 27, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Stormous
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Oct 27, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

USB Memory Direct (usbmemorydirect.com) is a US-based company specializing in custom-branded USB flash drives, power banks, and related promotional products. They offer over seventy customizable drive styles with logo printing, data loading services, and rush shipping options. Their primary market is businesses seeking branded promotional merchandise for trade shows, corporate gifts, and giveaways.

Industry: Promotional USB Flash Drives & Custom Branded Storage

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely threatened), and the exfiltrated set includes personal PII (names, photos) alongside business-sensitive internal documents, backups, and project files, representing confirmed exfiltration of mixed personal and business data at meaningful scale.

The Stormous ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from USB Memory Direct, including personal data (individual names and photos), company and business data, backup copies, system archive files, and internal documents and project files. The disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating the stolen data has been released.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personal names
Personal photos
Company/business data
Service and equipment records
Backup copies
System archive compressed files
Internal documents
Project files

What the group claims

Personal data (individual names, photos, etc.), company/business data (company names, services, tools, equipment), backup copies, system archive compressed files, internal documents and project files, and more.

Sources

Victim siteusbmemorydirect.com

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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