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PennEastern Architects

Claimed by Cmdorganization · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 8, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Cmdorganization
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
May 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PennEastern Architects, LLC is a Pennsylvania-based architectural firm whose principals include Andrew Pasonick, Emil Jarolen, and Norman Manovsky. The firm is affiliated with PennEastern Engineers, LLC, which specializes in commercial and residential land development, municipal, sanitary sewer, stormwater, pavement, flood control, and soil erosion projects. Design Principal Emil Jarolen has been a registered architect since 1978 and holds licensure in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.

Industry
Architecture & Engineering Services

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (confirmed exfiltration), but no specific data volume, regulated PII at scale, financial, or medical records are identified. The firm is a small professional services company with limited indication of critical or highly sensitive data exposure.

The group cmdorganization has disclosed data belonging to PennEastern Architects under a 'data_published' status, indicating exfiltration and publication of company data. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company principal and personnel information
  • Project documentation
  • Engineering and architectural records

What the group claims

The principals of PennEastern Engineers, LLC are Paul Pasonick, Andrew Pasonick, Michael Amato and Daryl Pawlush. All principals have extensive experience in commercial and residential land developments, municipal projects, sanitary sewer projects, storm water projects, pavement projects, flood control projects and soil erosion and sedimentation control plans. In addition, each has assisted in design, specification writing, cost estimating, project bidding and bid review, construction observation and project management of the various projects. The Principals of PennEastern Architects, LLC are Andrew Pasonick, Emil Jarolen and Norman Manovsky. Design Principal Emil Jarolen has been practicing Architecture since 1974 and has been a Registered Architect in the State of Pennsylvania since 1978. In addition, Mr. Jarolen is Registered as an Architect in the States of Maryland, New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About cmdorganization

Based on the limited available information, cmdorganization is an obscure ransomware group first observed in May 2026 with only three documented victims to date, suggesting either a newly emerged threat actor or a small-scale operation with primarily financial motivations. The group's targeting pattern shows a geographic focus on Canada, the United States, and Italy, with a sectoral preference for healthcare and construction industries, though the limited victim count makes it difficult to establish definitive targeting criteria. Due to the recent emergence and low victim count, there is insufficient publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, or operational structure. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly reported for this group, likely due to their limited operational scope and recent emergence. Current intelligence suggests the group remains active but operates at a relatively small scale compared to established ransomware families. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 2, 2026; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: cmd organization.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 8, 2026PennEastern Architects listed by cmdorganizationon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by cmdorganization

cmdorganization has been linked to 36 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full cmdorganization dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, PennEastern Architects is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by cmdorganization means PennEastern Architects 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on cmdorganization'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.