Was Freightliner of Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo hit by ransomware?

Freightliner of Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo was listed by the Arcusmedia ransomware operation (United States), 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 Freightliner of Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo breach?

Arcusmedia published data attributed to Freightliner of Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Freightliner of Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo

Claimed by Arcusmedia · listed 2 years ago

24m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 29, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Arcusmedia
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Jun 29, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Freightliner of Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo is a dealership for Freightliner commercial trucks, operating locations in both Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan. As a Freightliner franchise, they sell and service heavy-duty trucks and related commercial vehicles.

Industry: Transportation & Logistics – Heavy Truck Dealership
Address: Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Disclosed status confirms data publication by the threat actor. Without visibility into specific data types, volume, or proof artifacts in the truncated post, severity is conservatively rated medium. A truck dealership's data exposure (customer, employee, financial records) represents moderate business sensitivity.

The Arcusmedia group claims to have compromised Freightliner of Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo and published data from the breach. The group claims data exfiltration; encryption status is not explicitly stated.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business records
customer data
operational files

What the group claims

https://www.ftlgr.com Freightliner of Grand Rapids &...

Sources

Victim siteftlgr.com
Leak posthttp://arcuufpr5xxbbkin4mlidt7itmr6znlppk63jbtkeguuhszmc5g7qdyd.onion/?p=192

Source

Indexed 2 years 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

June 29, 2024Freightliner of Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo 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:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Freightliner of Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Arcusmedia means Freightliner of Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo 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 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.