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Kingsmen Creatives Ltd.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Apr 30, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Kingsmen Creatives Ltd.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Embargo on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2025-05-14

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Kingsmen Creatives designs roll-out retail environments based off their clients' needs and conceptualize events for their clients. Established in 1976 and headquartered in Singapore, the Group has a network of 21 offices and full service facilities serving global clients today. -

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 30, 2025

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteApr 30 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Apr 30, last May 7 — a 372-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-17

embargo

According to ransomware.live, Embargo is a Rust-based ransomware-as-a-service group that emerged in April 2024, primarily targeting US healthcare, manufacturing, and business services organizations using double extortion, assessed as a potential successor to BlackCat/ALPHV with over $34 million in ransom proceeds.

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