Was Rees NDT Inspection Services hit by ransomware?

Rees NDT Inspection Services was listed by the blacklock ransomware operation (Germany), 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?

blacklock 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 Rees NDT Inspection Services breach?

blacklock published data attributed to Rees NDT Inspection Services, around 25 Employees records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Rees NDT Inspection Services

Claimed by Blacklock · listed 1 year ago

25 Employees

Records

$5M

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: Germany
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 16, 2025
Records: 25 Employees
Ransom demanded: $5M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Rees NDT Inspection Services is a Canadian inspection and engineering certification company founded in 1978, operating from locations in Grande Prairie, Bonnyville, and Vegreville in northwestern Alberta. They specialize in non-destructive testing (NDT), overhead lifting equipment inspection (cranes, hoists), oilfield-related certifications, commercial vehicle inspection (CVIP), and related engineering services across Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Territories.

Industry: Industrial Inspection & Certification Services (NDT, Lifting Equipment, Oilfield)
Address: 15612-89 Street, Grande Prairie, AB T8V 2N8, Canada
Employees: <25
Founded: 1978

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration with public disclosure by the threat actor; ransomware encryption operational impact on a service-critical business; $5M ransom demand indicates significant data haul; company handles client inspection records and certifications that may include sensitive oilfield infrastructure information.

BlackLock claims to have encrypted Rees NDT's systems and exfiltrated business data. The group demanded $5M ransom and has published the exfiltrated data as proof of compromise.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business records
client information
employee data
operational/technical documentation

What the group claims

Energy, Utilities & Waste · Canada · <25 Employees We serve northwestern Canada from our locations in Grande Prairie, Bonnyville and Vegreville and with mobile units that can be dispatched throughout the area. We specialize in the inspection and engineering certification of all types of overhead lifting devices such as cranes, pickers and sideboom pipelayers as well as all types of oilfield-related lifting equipment. Revenue <$5 Million

Sources

Victim sitereesndt.ca
Leak posthttp://zdkexsh2e7yihw5uhg5hpsgq3dois2m5je7lzfagij2y6iw5ptl35gyd.onion/Data_Download/REESNDT

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, 2025Rees NDT Inspection Services listed by blacklockon the group's public leak site

Records: 25 Employees
Ransom demanded: $5M

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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Rees NDT Inspection Services is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacklock means Rees NDT Inspection Services 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, CERT-Bund (Germany), 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.