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 38 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 21, 2024; most recent post March 31, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 11, 2024diligentusa.com listed by Embargoon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, diligentusa.com is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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diligentusa.com

Claimed by Embargo · listed 2 years ago

22m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jul 11, 2024
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Embargo
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 11, 2024

What the group claims

Diligent Delivery Systems provides transportation services for businesses within varying industries. Major clients include WorldPac and PharMerica. The company is currently facing tight liquidity and debt default due 23 million cash uses within the past 18 months. Management has been tasked with refinancing existing debt, sourcing a new investor, or selling the business. - Total leak size: 600+ GB For any clients and buyers who have interest in working with Diligent or investing/buying this company, we have invaluable data for you. All documents and the entire collection of emails since January 1 2024 for: - Larry Browne (CEO) - Darl Petty (CFO) - Carlos Navarro (COO) - Alan Geraldi (Legal Counsel) Additionally, we have database backups, documents belonging to clients (protected by NDA), and more. If you had doubts about the financial situation of this company, no need to doubt. We will be releasing the entire collection shortly. The company will try to deny that they have these financial difficulties and that they are trying to sell the company, but these emails and documents tell different story. Some contacts for you: Larry Browne [email protected] [email protected] (713) 906-4385 (281) 854-1300 713-906-9253 713-906-4385 President Darl Petty [email protected] 713-906-6167 281-854-1313 CFO Carlos Navarro [email protected] 713.205.8861 (713)275-2555 713-377-2799 COO Alan Geraldi [email protected] (281)948-2604 (832)300-3595 General Counsel (Legal) Lisa Musick [email protected] (713)906-7317 (281)854-1301 Executive Assistant Scott Bruder [email protected] (713)906-0070 (281)854-1317 VP of National Sales Automative Dawn Vesey [email protected] 615.719.0481 HR Director Tim Barrett [email protected] 615-362-6799 629-335-3399 Director of Information Technologies Ed Saddler [email protected] (346)988-7464 Information Technology Level 2 Support Ron Lewis [email protected]

Sources

Victim sitediligentusa.com
Leak posthttp://embargobe3n5okxyzqphpmk3moinoap2snz5k6765mvtkk7hhi544jid.onion/#/post/31

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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