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Rapid Granulator

Claimed by Ransomhouse · listed 2 years ago

743 GB
Data size
$740
Ransom
demanded
29m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 23, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Sweden
Listed on leak site
Feb 23, 2024
Data size
743 GB
Ransom demanded
$740

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Rapid Granulator is a Swedish manufacturer of granulation and shredding equipment for plastic recycling. The company produces a range of granulators (small, medium, and large series) and shredders designed for in-line recycling, waste processing, and industrial applications across various plastic material types.

Industry
Plastic Recycling Equipment Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Large volume of data (743 GB) exfiltrated, but no confirmed evidence of regulated/sensitive data categories, PII at scale, or operational disruption to critical infrastructure published. No detailed proof files visible in truncated post.

Ransomhouse claims to have encrypted Rapid Granulator's systems on an unspecified date. The group alleges exfiltration of 743 GB of data but provides no detailed inventory of stolen information types in the leak post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • business records
  • operational data
  • potentially customer or technical documentation

What the group claims

80 years ago, in 1942, Harry Johansson founded Rapid Granulator in his hometown of Bredaryd, Sweden. He was an entrepreneur and visionary who was guided by strong values. Rapid’s products should make a difference for everyone who used them, and for the communities in which they operated. The concept of sustainable development may not have had the same impact then as now, but for Rapid’s founders it was a matter of course. The overall mentality in Swedish society at the time was to repair things that were broken instead of buying new, and to reuse items and equipment. Harry and his contemporary entrepreneurs were genuinely environmentally friendly, pioneers in sustainability work. Today, we are a world-leading company in producing equipment for plastic recycling, with operations and agencies located all over the world, on all continents. But our head office, production and development remain in Bredaryd, where we proudly have our roots.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating primarily for financial gain through extortion campaigns targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent cybercriminal organization rather than a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. Ransomhouse employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before deploying their ransomware payload and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if victims refuse to pay the demanded ransom. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with documented attacks against 187 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, focusing heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented by major security firms, the group's consistent victim count and geographic distribution indicate sustained operational capability since their emergence. As of current reporting, Ransomhouse remains active with no known major law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 210 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 1, 2021; most recent post June 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HOUSE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 23, 2024Rapid Granulator listed by Ransomhouseon the group's public leak site
Data size
743 GB
Ransom demanded
$740

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, Rapid Granulator is reported in Sweden, a country with 111 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomhouse means Rapid Granulator 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-SE (Sweden), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Ransomhouse'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.