BitLocker is an obscure ransomware group that emerged in March 2022, operating with financial motivations but maintaining a relatively small operational footprint with only two documented victims to date. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation, though their targeting pattern suggests independent operations rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. Given the minimal public information available from major security firms and law enforcement agencies, their attack methodology and technical capabilities are not well-documented, though their victims span across Russia and the United States, focusing primarily on the food and agriculture sector as well as educational facilities. No notable high-profile campaigns or major ransoms have been publicly reported by security researchers or government agencies, indicating either highly selective targeting or limited operational success. The current operational status of the BitLocker ransomware group remains uncertain due to insufficient public intelligence and the group's apparent low-profile nature within the broader ransomware ecosystem. The group has been linked to 2 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 1, 2022; most recent post May 2, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.
Sector and geography
This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education Facilities sector, which has 27 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, State Bar of Georgia is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.
If your organisation is affected
A listing by bitlocker means State Bar of Georgia 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
- Monitor for the data appearing on bitlocker'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.
