Was Nestoil hit by ransomware?

Nestoil was listed by the Blacksuit ransomware operation (Nigeria), 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 Blacksuit ransomware group?

Blacksuit 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 Nestoil breach?

Blacksuit published data attributed to Nestoil. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Nestoil

Claimed by Blacksuit · listed 2 years ago

27m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 6, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacksuit
Status: Data leaked
Country: Nigeria
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nestoil is Nigeria's largest indigenous EPCC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) company in the oil and gas sector, incorporated in 1991. The company operates multiple business divisions including dredging (B&Q Dredging), facilities and equipment services (IMPAC), and engineering solutions (Hammakopp Consortium), and has been a significant contributor to local content in Nigeria's energy industry for approximately 30 years.

Industry: Engineering, Procurement, Construction & Commissioning (EPCC) – Oil & Gas
Founded: 1991

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group (disclosed_status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration, but without visibility into the specific data types or volumes involved, and no leak post content available to assess proof or sensitivity level, the severity is assessed as medium pending further evidence.

Blacksuit claims to have attacked Nestoil and published data. The specific details of what was encrypted, exfiltrated, or the nature of the breach are not provided in the available leak post excerpt.

medium

Sources

Victim sitenestoilgroup.com
Leak posthttp://weg7sdx54bevnvulapqu6bpzwztryeflq3s23tegbmnhkbpqz637f2yd.onion/?id=3eO36XPLsUprFcaz

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blacksuit

Blacksuit is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with 184 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a traditional RaaS model. Blacksuit primarily targets organizations through common initial access vectors and employs standard ransomware deployment techniques, though detailed technical analysis of their specific encryption methods and whether they consistently employ double extortion tactics has not been widely published by major security firms. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting business services, healthcare, government, and manufacturing sectors, with their victims predominantly located in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as Spain and Germany. As of current reporting, Blacksuit remains an active ransomware operation with no publicly documented law enforcement disruptions or significant rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 184 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post June 2, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: black suit.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 6, 2024Nestoil listed by Blacksuiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blacksuit

Blacksuit has been linked to 184 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Blacksuit dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Nestoil is reported in Nigeria.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blacksuit means Nestoil 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Blacksuit'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.