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Trust Seeds

Claimed by Arcusmedia · listed 2 years ago

20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 21, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Arcusmedia
Status
Data leaked
Country
Jordan
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Nov 21, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Trust Seeds is a family-owned company established in 1986 in Amman, Jordan, specializing in the development and distribution of F1 hybrid seeds for vegetables including tomato, melon, cucumber, sweet pepper, and eggplant. The company serves growers worldwide and emphasizes sustainability and innovation in seed genetics.

Industry
Agriculture and Food Production – Hybrid Seed Development
Address
Amman, Jordan
Founded
1986

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a timestamp and a brief reference to the company's public website content, with no evidence of proof files, data samples, or substantive disclosure of sensitive information. No operational impact is stated.

Arcusmedia claims to have breached Trust Seeds and published data. The leak post provides no details on the scope of exfiltration, operational disruption, or specific data categories compromised.

low

What the group claims

Days00007777Hours23Minutes22222222Seconds11115555 www.trustseeds.comTRUST SEEDS, was established in 1986 as a family company in Amman-Jordan…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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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

  • November 21, 2024Trust Seeds 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Trust Seeds is reported in Jordan, a country with 11 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Arcusmedia means Trust Seeds 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 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.