Was New River Electrical Corporation hit by ransomware?

New River Electrical Corporation was listed by the blacklock 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 blacklock ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the New River Electrical Corporation breach?

blacklock published data attributed to New River Electrical Corporation. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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New River Electrical Corporation

Claimed by Blacklock · listed 1 year ago

$247.1M

Ransom

demanded

14m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 16, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacklock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: May 16, 2025
Ransom demanded: $247.1M
Estimated revenue: $247.1M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

New River Electrical Corporation is an electrical construction contractor founded in 1953 and headquartered in Cloverdale, Virginia. With 1,100+ employees, the company provides coast-to-coast electrical construction services including utility upgrades, transmission, distribution, substations, and telecommunications infrastructure. The company is 100% employee-owned and reports annual revenue of approximately $247.1 million.

Industry: Electrical Construction & Utility Services
Address: 15 Cloverdale Place, PO Box 70, Cloverdale, VA 24112 (headquarters); additional office at 4009 Columbus Road, Suite 333, Granville, OH 43123
Employees: 1100
Founded: 1953

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The victim is a critical infrastructure contractor (electrical utility services), and the disclosed status indicates data has been published. However, the leak post provides no details on what data was exfiltrated or proof files, and no operational disruption is claimed. The company's access to utility infrastructure and employee/customer records elevates concern despite the sparse disclosure.

BlackLock claims to have attacked New River Electrical Corporation. The group's leak post provides no details on the nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or what data may have been compromised.

medium

What the group claims

Revenue $247.1 million New River Electrical Corporation provides electric utility line construction services.

Sources

Victim sitenewriverelectrical.com
Leak posthttp://zdkexsh2e7yihw5uhg5hpsgq3dois2m5je7lzfagij2y6iw5ptl35gyd.onion/Data_Download/NRE

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About blacklock

Based on the limited publicly available information, Blacklock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in May 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations targeting organizations across multiple countries and sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear from documented sources, and there is insufficient public reporting to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. With 64 documented victims since their emergence, Blacklock has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across the United States, Canada, Spain, India, and the United Kingdom, with particular focus on technology, construction, manufacturing, and consumer services sectors, though their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption tactics have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting from established threat intelligence sources, notable campaigns and specific technical details of their operations remain largely undocumented in publicly available security research. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active given their recent emergence date, though comprehensive analysis of their operational status requires additional documentation from established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 64 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 16, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 16, 2025New River Electrical Corporation listed by blacklockon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $247.1M

Other recent disclosures by blacklock

blacklock has been linked to 64 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 Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, New River Electrical Corporation is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacklock means New River Electrical Corporation 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 blacklock'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.