Disclosure context

About Ragnarlocker

**Overview:** Ragnarlocker is a financially motivated ransomware operation that emerged in April 2020, conducting targeted attacks against enterprise organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on maximizing profit through encryption and data theft extortion tactics. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though they operate as an independent ransomware family rather than offering Ransomware-as-a-Service capabilities to other criminal actors. **Attack Methodology:** Ragnarlocker operators typically gain initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that employs strong encryption algorithms. The group practices double extortion tactics, exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish stolen information on dedicated leak sites if ransom demands are not met, often targeting network shares and attempting to delete shadow copies to prevent recovery. **Notable Campaigns:** The group has successfully compromised 128 documented victims across multiple countries, with significant targeting of critical infrastructure sectors including energy, finance, and telecommunications organizations, though specific high-profile incidents and ransom amounts have not been widely disclosed in public threat intelligence reports. **Current Status:** Based on available public reporting, Ragnarlocker remains an active threat as of recent security advisories, continuing to target organizations primarily in the United States and Europe. The group has been linked to 128 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 1, 2020; most recent post October 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Ragnar Locker.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 10, 2023Belize Electricity Limited - Leaked listed by Ragnarlockeron the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy & Utilities sector, which has 6 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Belize Electricity Limited - Leaked is reported in Belize.

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.

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Belize Electricity Limited - Leaked

Claimed by Ragnarlocker · listed 3 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jul 10, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Ragnarlocker
Status: Data leaked
Country: Belize
Sector: Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site: Jul 10, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) is the primary electricity transmission and distribution company in Belize, serving residential, commercial, and industrial customers nationwide. It operates as a regulated utility under government oversight and is responsible for managing the national electricity grid. BEL is majority state-owned and is a critical infrastructure provider for the country.

Industry: Electric Power Distribution & Utilities
Address: Belize City, Belize
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 1992

Attack summary

Severity: critical — BEL is critical national infrastructure (sole electricity distributor in Belize); data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of data, which likely includes regulated PII (customer accounts, employees) and sensitive operational data for a critical utility. Compromise of a national grid operator warrants critical severity regardless of confirmed data volume.

Ragnar Locker claims to have attacked Belize Electricity Limited and published exfiltrated data; the disclosure status is 'data_published,' indicating stolen data has been released, though no specific data volume or ransom demand was captured in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal business documents
Employee records
Customer data
Financial records
Operational/grid management data

Sources

Victim sitebel.com.bz
Leak posthttp://rgleaktxuey67yrgspmhvtnrqtgogur35lwdrup4d3igtbm3pupc4lyd.onion/?RTdLqfLIoiE

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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