Was R. A. Wood Associates hit by ransomware?

R. A. Wood Associates was listed by the Storm ransomware operation as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Storm ransomware group?

Storm is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

VictimsR. A. Wood Associates

R. A. Wood Associates

claimed by StormListed for ransom

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What this is

A claim by the operator, not a confirmed breach.

No statement from the organisation is on record here. We index the listing; we never host the data.

Corroboration

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Listed by RansomLook

Timeline

Listed · Oct 12, 2026
Data published · not yet, as far as the post says

Leak-post captureOct 12, 2026post textscreenshotverified

No screenshot on file. This row comes from a tracker listing; our crawler has not captured the page yet.RansomLook holds a screenshot of this post

PostPost URL not recorded for this row.

What the operator wrote

Aerospace & Defense | Frankfort, New York, United States | R. A. Wood Associates is a consulting firm that specializes in innovative engineering solutions in RF and microwave systems design and manufacturing. Their services include engineering consulting, prototypes, automated test system design, software development, and training classes. They offer a range of RF and microwave components such as equalizers, attenuat…

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Size claimed

unknown

the post states no size

Records claimed

unknown

the post states no count

Ransom · deadline

not stated

we show unknown, never zero

If this is your organisation

Assume credentials were taken even where the post names none: reset, revoke sessions, enforce a second factor.
Open the incident with your national CERT and your regulator before data is published, not after.
Watch the listing: a tracked domain is re-checked against every new post and you are paged when this one changes status or another operator names the organisation.

Disclosure context

About Storm

Storm is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026, operating with an apparent financial motivation based on its targeting profile, though limited public documentation exists given its recent emergence and relatively small victim footprint. The group has claimed or been attributed to attacks against at least six known victims, with the United States representing its primary target geography. Storm has demonstrated a preference for targeting the healthcare and manufacturing sectors, alongside a broader category of other industries, suggesting an opportunistic rather than highly specialized targeting philosophy. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited victim count, comprehensive technical details regarding its initial access vectors, encryption methodology, tooling, or affiliation with known threat actor ecosystems have not yet been formally documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other major threat intelligence publishers as of the time of this writing. No confirmed RaaS infrastructure, dark web leak site activity, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly attributed or reported in open sources. Given its nascent operational timeline beginning in 2026, Storm should be monitored as an emerging threat, particularly within the healthcare sector where ransomware attacks carry significant operational and patient safety implications, but analysts should treat any further characterization beyond the known victim and targeting data with caution pending additional corroborating intelligence. The group has been linked to 86 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 7, 2026; most recent post October 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 12, 2026R. A. Wood Associates listed by Storm on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Storm

Storm has been linked to 86 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Storm dossier →

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Storm means R. A. Wood Associates appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 Storm'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, recording every new disclosure and the moment the operator says the data was released. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication, listed by an independent tracker (RansomLook) and checked against our own capture. 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.