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DDB Unlimited (ddbunlimited.com)

Claimed by Rancoz · listed 3 years ago

34m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 3, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

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

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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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

Other recent disclosures by Rancoz

Rancoz has been linked to 6 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Rancoz dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, DDB Unlimited (ddbunlimited.com) is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rancoz means DDB Unlimited (ddbunlimited.com) 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 Rancoz'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.