Disclosure context

About NoEscape

NoEscape is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in mid-2023, rapidly establishing itself as a significant threat with 249 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origins and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. NoEscape demonstrates sophisticated attack methodologies targeting critical infrastructure and essential services, with their campaigns showing a clear preference for high-value targets in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing sectors across developed nations, particularly focusing on the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Australia. The group's rapid victim accumulation rate since their June 2023 emergence indicates an aggressive operational tempo and effective attack capabilities, though specific technical details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, NoEscape appears to remain an active threat with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities. The group has been linked to 249 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post December 9, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 13, 2023Putzel Electrical Contractors Inc listed by NoEscapeon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy & Utilities sector, which has 6 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Putzel Electrical Contractors Inc 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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Putzel Electrical Contractors Inc

Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

30m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 13, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: NoEscape
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site: Nov 13, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Putzel Electrical Contractors Inc is a locally owned and operated commercial electrical contracting firm based in Macon, Georgia, with over a century of experience in the industry. The company operates under the trade name Putzel Electric and serves commercial clients in the region.

Industry: Commercial Electrical Contracting
Address: Macon, Georgia, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration of company data by the threat actor, which constitutes a significant business data breach even in the absence of a stated ransom or specific data volume.

NoEscape claims to have attacked Putzel Electrical Contractors Inc and has published data, suggesting exfiltration of company data; no ransom amount was stated and no specific data volume was disclosed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business records
Contractor/project documentation

What the group claims

Putzel offers a rich history of experience in commercial electrical contracting dating back over a century. Locally owned & operated, Putzel was founded in Macon, Georgia b...

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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