Disclosure context

About Ragnarlocker

**Overview:** Ragnarlocker is a financially motivated ransomware operation that emerged in April 2020, conducting targeted attacks against enterprise organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on maximizing profit through encryption and data theft extortion tactics. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though they operate as an independent ransomware family rather than offering Ransomware-as-a-Service capabilities to other criminal actors. **Attack Methodology:** Ragnarlocker operators typically gain initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that employs strong encryption algorithms. The group practices double extortion tactics, exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish stolen information on dedicated leak sites if ransom demands are not met, often targeting network shares and attempting to delete shadow copies to prevent recovery. **Notable Campaigns:** The group has successfully compromised 128 documented victims across multiple countries, with significant targeting of critical infrastructure sectors including energy, finance, and telecommunications organizations, though specific high-profile incidents and ransom amounts have not been widely disclosed in public threat intelligence reports. **Current Status:** Based on available public reporting, Ragnarlocker remains an active threat as of recent security advisories, continuing to target organizations primarily in the United States and Europe. The group has been linked to 128 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 1, 2020; most recent post October 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Ragnar Locker.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 5, 2023Learning Partnership West - Leaked listed by Ragnarlockeron the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Learning Partnership West - Leaked is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 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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Learning Partnership West

listed as Learning Partnership West - Leaked · Claimed by Ragnarlocker · listed 3 years ago

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 5, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Ragnarlocker
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Oct 5, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Learning Partnership West (LPW) is a Community Interest Company based in Bristol, UK, supporting children and young people in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and surrounding areas. It provides play and youth work embedded in communities, alternative education environments, mentoring, and serious youth violence support. It operates as a not-for-profit limited by guarantee organisation registered in England (Company No. 2911928).

Industry: Youth & Community Education Services
Address: LPW House, Princess Street, Bristol, BS3 4AG, United Kingdom

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is marked as published by Ragnar Locker against a children's charity/youth services organisation, which likely holds sensitive personal data on minors and vulnerable individuals. Publication of such data represents a serious breach even without a detailed inventory, warranting a high severity classification.

Ragnar Locker claims to have attacked Learning Partnership West, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating data has been leaked. No leak post text or data size details were captured to further specify what was exfiltrated or encrypted.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unknown — no leak post captured

Sources

Victim sitelpw.org.uk
Leak posthttp://rgleaktxuey67yrgspmhvtnrqtgogur35lwdrup4d3igtbm3pupc4lyd.onion/?3qzIqHM4eugu6

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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