Disclosure context

About Rancoz

Rancoz is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in May 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations and maintaining a low profile compared to major ransomware families. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undetermined due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity agencies and research organizations, with no confirmed information regarding their country of origin or whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on available targeting data, Rancoz appears to focus primarily on manufacturing sector organizations within the United States, though their specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from established sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. With only six known victims documented since their emergence, the group has not conducted any widely-publicized major campaigns or attracted significant law enforcement attention that has been made public. Current intelligence suggests the group remains active as of recent observations, though their limited victim count and low public profile indicate they operate as a relatively minor threat actor within the broader ransomware ecosystem. The group has been linked to 6 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 5, 2023; most recent post September 3, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 3, 2023DDB Unlimited (ddbunlimited.com) listed by Rancozon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, DDB Unlimited (ddbunlimited.com) is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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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DDB Unlimited (ddbunlimited.com)

Claimed by Rancoz · listed 3 years ago

33m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 3, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Rancoz
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Sep 3, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

DDB Unlimited is a US-based ISO 9001-certified manufacturer of NEMA-rated enclosures (3R through 4X) headquartered in Oklahoma. The company produces outdoor, indoor, and field-ready enclosures for industrial and communications applications, offering custom engineering services and holding a CAGE code (385Y5) indicating government/defence contracting capability. They supply products under Build America Buy America compliance and offer a 15-year warranty.

Industry: Industrial Enclosure Manufacturing (NEMA-rated)
Address: Oklahoma, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely threatened), and the company holds a CAGE code indicating US government/defence contracting relationships, which elevates the sensitivity of any exfiltrated business data beyond typical manufacturing victims.

The Rancoz ransomware group claims to have attacked DDB Unlimited and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post provides minimal detail on the nature or volume of exfiltrated data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
Potentially proprietary manufacturing/engineering files
Possible government contracting records (CAGE code holder)

What the group claims

Manufactures

Sources

Victim siteddbunlimited.com
Leak posthttp://ze677xuzard4lx4iul2yzf5ks4gqqzoulgj5u4n5n4bbbsxjbfr7eayd.onion/post/5.html

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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