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Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading L.L.C

listed as Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading · Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 2 years ago

498 GB
Data size
19m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 8, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Sarcoma
Status
Data leaked
Country
Oman
Listed on leak site
Dec 8, 2024
Data size
498 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading L.L.C (GPS) is an Omani-owned EPC contractor founded in 1983, specializing in engineering, procurement, and construction services for hydrocarbon, petrochemical, and energy sector projects. The company operates across the GCC region, providing services including pipeline construction, water/wastewater facilities, cathodic protection systems, and technical representation for oil and gas industries.

Industry
Oil & Gas Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC)
Founded
1983

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 498 GB from a major EPC contractor in the critical oil & gas sector operating across GCC countries. Exposure of engineering, procurement, and construction data poses significant operational and strategic risk to energy infrastructure projects.

The Sarcoma group claims to have exfiltrated 498 GB of data from GPS. The leak post does not explicitly state whether encryption or operational disruption occurred, but data exfiltration is confirmed via published archive.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Engineering documentation
  • Construction contracts
  • Business records
  • Project files
  • Technical specifications

What the group claims

Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading L.L.C (GPS) is a leading Omani-owned Contracting and Trading Company with active participation in Oman's Hydrocarbon, Petrochemical and Energy Sector industries since 1983. Core Business Operations Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contracting (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation & Structural) for Hydrocarbon and Process Industries; Engineering, Procurement and Construction of Water and Wastewater Facilities and Networks; Construction Services in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Instrumentation categories; Construction of Pipelines and Storage Facilities; Specialist activities such as Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning, Design, Installation and Monitoring of Cathodic Protection Systems, long - term Operations and Maintenance services for Oil and Gas Sector facilities and pipelines; Technical Representation and Trading of specialist products for the Oil, Gas and Energy Sector industries; The Company is currently rated as one of the leading EPC Contractors in the Sultanate of Oman with business activities spread across GCC member Countries.Geo: Oman - Leak size: 498 GB Archive - Contains: Files

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 8, 2024Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site
Data size
498 GB

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sarcoma dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading is reported in Oman, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading 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 Sarcoma'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.