Disclosure context

About lockbit2

LockBit, also known as LockBit 2.0, is a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in September 2021 as an evolution of the original LockBit group, quickly establishing itself as one of the most prolific and aggressive ransomware operations globally. The group is believed to operate from Russia or former Soviet states, following the typical RaaS model where the core developers provide the ransomware tools and infrastructure to affiliate operators who conduct the actual attacks in exchange for a percentage of ransom payments. LockBit primarily gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol credentials, exploitation of public-facing applications, and phishing campaigns, employing a triple extortion model that combines file encryption, data theft with threatened publication on their leak site, and increasingly includes threats to contact victims' customers and business partners directly. The group has been responsible for over 1,000 documented victim organizations, with particularly heavy targeting of entities in Italy, Germany, France, Canada, and Australia across critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, financial services, and government organizations. Notable incidents include attacks on major healthcare systems, manufacturing companies, and government entities, with the group consistently ranking among the top ransomware threats in law enforcement and cybersecurity reporting throughout 2022 and 2023. Despite ongoing international law enforcement pressure and sanctions, including disruption attempts by agencies such as the FBI and Europol, LockBit continues to operate actively with regular updates to their ransomware variants and recruitment of new affiliates. The group has been linked to 1,002 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post June 28, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 20, 2022rhenus.group listed by lockbit2on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation & Logistics sector. Geographically, rhenus.group is reported in Germany, a country with 695 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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Rhenus Group

listed as rhenus.group · Claimed by lockbit2 · listed 4 years ago

47m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jun 20, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: lockbit2
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site: Jun 20, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Rhenus Group is a global logistics service provider headquartered in Germany, offering end-to-end supply chain solutions including air, sea, road, rail, and inland waterway transport, as well as warehousing, port logistics, commodity logistics, and digital/document solutions. The company serves a wide range of industries including automotive, chemicals, consumer goods, fashion, high-tech, and life sciences across more than 50 countries worldwide. Rhenus operates as a large-scale, multi-modal logistics conglomerate with a significant international footprint.

Industry: Transportation & Logistics
Employees: 10000+
Founded: 1912

Attack summary

Severity: high — Rhenus Group is a large global logistics operator; a confirmed data_published status from LockBit 2.0 implies exfiltration and public release of potentially significant business data, which could include customer contracts, shipment records, financial information, and partner data across multiple countries — constituting high-severity business data exposure even without confirmed PII at regulated scale.

LockBit 2.0 claims to have attacked Rhenus Group and the disclosure status is listed as 'data_published', indicating that data has been exfiltrated and published. No specific details about the volume or nature of the published data were captured in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unknown — leak post not captured

Sources

Victim siterhenus.group

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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