Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 15, 2023Colonial Pipeline Company listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Colonial Pipeline Company 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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Colonial Pipeline Company

Claimed by ransomed · listed 3 years ago

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 15, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Oct 15, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Colonial Pipeline Company operates the largest refined petroleum products pipeline system in the United States, spanning approximately 5,500 miles from Houston, Texas to Linden, New Jersey. The company transports gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and home heating oil, supplying roughly 45% of all fuel consumed on the East Coast. It is widely recognized as a critical infrastructure operator in the US energy sector.

Industry: Petroleum Pipeline Transportation & Critical Infrastructure
Address: 1185 Sanctuary Pkwy, Suite 400, Alpharetta, GA 30009, United States
Employees: 501-1000
Founded: 1962

Attack summary

Severity: high — Colonial Pipeline is designated US critical infrastructure; any confirmed data publication — even without a stated data size — against this operator carries high severity given the national-security implications, prior high-profile attack history, and the post's suggestion of insider/executive data exposure.

The group 'ransomed' claims to have published data related to Colonial Pipeline Company, with the leak post suggesting exposure of information potentially linked to cybersecurity personnel or executives rather than traditional operational/financial data exfiltration; no ransom amount or data size was specified.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Cybersecurity personnel information
Executive profile data
Potentially internal corporate communications

What the group claims

Threat actors – they hide amongst us. It is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate these bad actors from our heroic cyber front-line responders, who work night & day to protect their clients from ever-growing cyber threats. In fact, as we’ll discuss here, some of these threat actors operate under the guise of powerful cyber-security executives.…

Sources

Victim sitecolonialpipeline.com
Leak posthttp://f6amq3izzsgtna4vw24rpyhy3ofwazlgex2zqdssavevvkklmtudxjad.onion/?p=108

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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