Was East African Gasoil hit by ransomware?

East African Gasoil was listed by the Arcusmedia ransomware operation (Kenya), 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 Arcusmedia ransomware group?

Arcusmedia 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 East African Gasoil breach?

Arcusmedia published data attributed to East African Gasoil. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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East African Gasoil

Claimed by Arcusmedia · listed 9 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 6, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Arcusmedia
Status: Data leaked
Country: Kenya
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: Jul 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

East African Gasoil (EAGOL) is an independent oil and gas company operating in Kenya and across East Africa for over 10 years. They distribute petroleum products including premium motor spirit, automotive gas oil, jet fuel (JET A1), illuminating kerosene, and lubricants through 9 service stations across 4 countries in the region.

Industry: Oil & Gas Distribution
Address: P.O BOX 37952 – 00100 Nairobi Kenya; FCB Mihrab 8th Floor, Junction of Lenana road and Ring road, Kilimani
Founded: 2014

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed_status: data_published) and the attack is claimed by an active ransomware group with a stated deadline. However, no specific sensitive data categories are confirmed in the available excerpt, and no proof files are advertised. The company operates critical energy infrastructure, elevating concern slightly.

The ransomware group arcusmedia claims to have attacked EAGOL and set a deadline of 2026-07-12, indicating a ransom demand. The specific data exfiltrated or encryption details are not disclosed in the truncated leak post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business operations data
Customer information
Financial records
Corporate systems

What the group claims

EAGOL is an independent oil and gas company operating in Kenya and East Africa, dedicated Deadline: 2026-07-12 23:48:00.000000

Sources

Victim siteeastafricangasoil.com
Leak posthttp://arcuufpr5xxbbkin4mlidt7itmr6znlppk63jbtkeguuhszmc5g7qdyd.onion/?p=572

Source

Indexed 9 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Arcusmedia

Arcusmedia is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in May 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple countries and sectors. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear given limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting of victims across Brazil, the United States, Spain, UAE, and Mexico suggests either a geographically distributed operation or deliberate international scope. With 98 documented victims in a short operational timeframe, Arcusmedia has demonstrated notable activity levels, primarily focusing on technology, business services, agriculture and food production, and transportation/logistics sectors, though their targeting appears opportunistic rather than strategically focused given the "Not Found" classification as their primary sector target. Limited public reporting from major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies means specific details about their attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or whether they employ double extortion tactics remain undocumented in authoritative sources. No major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant law enforcement actions against Arcusmedia have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence organizations. Current operational status appears active based on the recent emergence timeframe, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from reputable sources have not yet been published given the group's recent appearance in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 105 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 15, 2024; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: arcus media.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 6, 2026East African Gasoil listed by Arcusmediaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Arcusmedia

Arcusmedia has been linked to 105 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Arcusmedia dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, East African Gasoil is reported in Kenya, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Arcusmedia means East African Gasoil 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 Arcusmedia'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.