Was Weeks Roses hit by ransomware?

Weeks Roses was listed by the Embargo ransomware operation as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. 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.

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Weeks Roses

Claimed by Embargo · listed 3 days ago

1 TB

Data size

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 10, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Embargo
Status: Listed for ransom
Sector: Nursery / Agriculture
Listed on leak site: Sep 10, 2026
Data size: 1 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Weeks Roses is a nursery/agriculture company operating under the victim_name provided. Based on the sector classification, the company is engaged in plant propagation, rose cultivation, or related horticultural products and services.

Industry: Horticulture & Nursery Products

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration of 1 TB of data from a commercial entity; no proof files advertised in the post, no sensitive regulated data explicitly mentioned, no operational disruption stated. Scale and sensitivity are moderate.

The Embargo group claims to have exfiltrated 1 TB of data from Weeks Roses. The leak post does not specify the nature of the data compromised or confirm whether encryption was deployed.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business records
operational data

The leak post

captured from the group's site

1 D 16 H 45 M 28 S
gardensalive.com, bitsandpieces.com, iselinursery.local, weeksroses.org, esm.local
Gardens Alive, Inc. is a privately held U.S. consumer goods company specializing in direct-to-consumer gardening products, plants, seeds, nursery stock, fertili...
May Trucking Company is a family-owned interstate transport carrier founded in 1945, headquartered in Brooks, Oregon. They provide dry freight and temperature-c...
TOTAL QUANTITY OF DATA 1 TB
Auburn Electrical Construction Company, Inc. is an innovative contracting firm that profitably provides electrical-related services to our customers. Our goal i...
Lagoon Amusement Park , located in Farmington, Utah, is a historic family-owned park operating since 1886. It features a combination of roller coasters (includ...
Ludlum Measurements, Inc. (LMI), founded in 1962 in Sweetwater, Texas, designs, manufactures, and supplies radiation detection and measurement equipment used w...
We have 5 TB data including full source codes, client data, and more. 
We connect synergistic technologies to power a cleaner tomorrow. As a leading supplier of affordable, alternative fuel, low-emissions transportation technologie...
The UBM Group is …

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Victim siteweeksroses.org
Leak posthttp://embargobe3n5okxyzqphpmk3moinoap2snz5k6765mvtkk7hhi544jid.onion

Source

Indexed 3 days 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 54 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 21, 2024; most recent post September 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 10, 2026Weeks Roses listed by Embargo on the group's public leak site

Data size: 1 TB

Other recent disclosures by Embargo

Embargo has been linked to 54 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 Nursery / Agriculture sector.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Embargo means Weeks Roses appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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.