Disclosure context

About NoEscape

NoEscape is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in mid-2023, rapidly establishing itself as a significant threat with 249 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origins and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. NoEscape demonstrates sophisticated attack methodologies targeting critical infrastructure and essential services, with their campaigns showing a clear preference for high-value targets in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing sectors across developed nations, particularly focusing on the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Australia. The group's rapid victim accumulation rate since their June 2023 emergence indicates an aggressive operational tempo and effective attack capabilities, though specific technical details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, NoEscape appears to remain an active threat with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities. The group has been linked to 249 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post December 9, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 13, 2023www.putzelelectric.com listed by NoEscapeon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy & Utilities sector, which has 6 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.putzelelectric.com is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Putzel Electric

listed as www.putzelelectric.com · Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

30m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 13, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: NoEscape
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site: Nov 13, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Putzel Electric is a United States-based electrical contracting company operating under the domain putzelelectric.com. The company appears to provide electrical services, likely to residential and/or commercial customers. Limited detail is available from the public site excerpt beyond the company name and branding.

Industry: Electrical Contracting & Services

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published by the NoEscape group, indicating exfiltration has been claimed and data released; however, no leak post content, data size, or data categories are available to confirm the scale or sensitivity of the exposure.

NoEscape has listed Putzel Electric as a victim with a disclosed/published data status, claiming to have exfiltrated data from the company. No specific details regarding encryption, data volume, or data categories were included in the captured leak post.

medium

Sources

Victim siteputzelelectric.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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