Was Gloucester County Virginia hit by ransomware?

Gloucester County Virginia was listed by the Blacksuit 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 Blacksuit ransomware group?

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

What data was leaked in the Gloucester County Virginia breach?

Blacksuit published data attributed to Gloucester County Virginia. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Gloucester County Virginia

Claimed by Blacksuit · listed 1 year ago

14m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 15, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacksuit
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: May 15, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gloucester County is a local government jurisdiction in Virginia providing municipal services including real estate assessment, planning & zoning, sheriff operations, public utilities, building inspection, circuit court services, parks and recreation, and public schools (GCPS) to residents and businesses in the county.

Industry: Public Sector - Local Government
Address: 6467 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Attack on critical public sector infrastructure (county government) with potential access to sensitive government records, employee data, and citizen information. No actual proof files shown, but the scope and sensitivity of government data systems elevates this beyond medium severity.

Blacksuit claims to have compromised Gloucester County systems. The leak post contains only generic text about a county Clean Community Committee and does not specify what data was exfiltrated or confirm operational disruption.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government database records
Public employee information
Potentially real estate/assessment data
Potentially planning & zoning records
Potentially court/clerk records

What the group claims

The Committee is comprised of residents of Gloucester County who are appointed by the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors to serve for a term of 2 years. Meetings are held the third Wednesday of each month in the first floor conference room of County Building One, 6467 Main Street. (The Committee generally does not meet in July and the December meeting is to be announced.) Meetings start at 6:30 PM and are open to the public. Those interested in Committee activities are encourage to attend. Prior to attending, please call the Clean Community Office to verify the location and time of the meeting. Proceedings of the Committee are governed by its Bylaws. The program is administered by a Clean Community Coordinator and supported by hundreds of Gloucester residents and businesses who give generously of their time to help keep the County of Gloucester beautiful, clean, and litter free.

Sources

Victim sitewww.gloucesterva.gov
Leak posthttp://weg7sdx54bevnvulapqu6bpzwztryeflq3s23tegbmnhkbpqz637f2yd.onion/?id=VksShToH3kT0dkvL

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Blacksuit

Blacksuit is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with 184 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a traditional RaaS model. Blacksuit primarily targets organizations through common initial access vectors and employs standard ransomware deployment techniques, though detailed technical analysis of their specific encryption methods and whether they consistently employ double extortion tactics has not been widely published by major security firms. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting business services, healthcare, government, and manufacturing sectors, with their victims predominantly located in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as Spain and Germany. As of current reporting, Blacksuit remains an active ransomware operation with no publicly documented law enforcement disruptions or significant rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 184 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post June 2, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: black suit.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 15, 2025Gloucester County Virginia listed by Blacksuiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blacksuit

Blacksuit has been linked to 184 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Blacksuit dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gloucester County Virginia is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blacksuit means Gloucester County Virginia 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 Blacksuit'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.