Disclosure context

About Rancoz

Rancoz is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in May 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations and maintaining a low profile compared to major ransomware families. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undetermined due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity agencies and research organizations, with no confirmed information regarding their country of origin or whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on available targeting data, Rancoz appears to focus primarily on manufacturing sector organizations within the United States, though their specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from established sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. With only six known victims documented since their emergence, the group has not conducted any widely-publicized major campaigns or attracted significant law enforcement attention that has been made public. Current intelligence suggests the group remains active as of recent observations, though their limited victim count and low public profile indicate they operate as a relatively minor threat actor within the broader ransomware ecosystem. The group has been linked to 6 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 5, 2023; most recent post September 3, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 5, 2023RIC Electronics (ricelectronics.com) listed by Rancozon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, RIC Electronics (ricelectronics.com) is reported in United States of America.

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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RIC Electronics Ltd.

listed as RIC Electronics (ricelectronics.com) · Claimed by Rancoz · listed 3 years ago

37m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 5, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Rancoz
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States of America
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 5, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

RIC Electronics Ltd. is a Canadian company headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, specializing in the research, development, engineering, and manufacturing of industrial-grade AC and DC power systems since 1981. Their product portfolio includes mobile battery power centers, utility-scale energy storage and delivery systems, chargers and rectifiers, DC and AC UPS systems, and converters and inverters. They serve sectors including marine, defense, utility, telecom, oil and gas, and mining, and hold ISO 9001:2015 certification.

Industry: Industrial Electrical Power Systems Manufacturing
Address: Unit 307 - 6741 Cariboo Rd, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Founded: 1981

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published (data_published status), indicating successful exfiltration. RIC Electronics serves defense, utility, oil and gas, and other critical infrastructure sectors, elevating the sensitivity of potentially exposed business data such as technical designs, client lists, and proprietary product specifications.

The Rancoz ransomware group claims an attack on RIC Electronics and has disclosed the status as data_published, indicating that data has been exfiltrated and published. The specific data types and volumes have not been enumerated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company data (unspecified)

What the group claims

Electrical Equipment Manufacturing

Sources

Victim sitericelectronics.com
Leak posthttp://ze677xuzard4lx4iul2yzf5ks4gqqzoulgj5u4n5n4bbbsxjbfr7eayd.onion/post/2.html

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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