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Blacklock Ransomware: A Late Holiday Gift with Intrusion into the Threat Actor’s Infrastructure

Posted on March 27, 2025March 27, 2025 by Dissent

As seen on Resecurity’s blog, and where they are entitled to take a victory lap:

Dubbed “BlackLock” (aka “El Dorado” or “Eldorado“), the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) outfit has existed since March 2024. In Q4 of last year, it increased its number of data leak posts by a staggering 1,425% quarter-on-quarter. According to independent reporting, a relatively new group has rapidly accelerated attacks and could become the most dominant RaaS group in 2025.

Fortunately, it will not happen due to certain events happening “behind the scenes.” As you may know, Christmas and Winter Holidays are the best times for cybercriminals to attack, defraud, and extort victims globally. But in some cases, they may expect unexpected gifts too. Around that time, Resecurity identified a vulnerability present at the Data Leak Site (DLS) of BlackLock in the TOR network – successful exploitation of which allowed our analysts to collect substantial intelligence about their activity outside of the public domain.

Since that time, our analysts from the HUNTER team have been covertly acquiring critical and previously undisclosed artifacts related to threat actors’ network infrastructure, logs, ISPs and hosting providers involved, timestamps of logins, associated file-sharing accounts at MEGA, the group created to store stolen data from the victims (which later got published via DLS in TOR). A successful compromise of BlackLock’s DLS allowed to uncover a trove of information about the threat actors and their Modus Operandi (MO), but more importantly, to predict and prevent some of their planned attacks and protect undisclosed victims by alerting them.

It is not enough to look at ransomware groups and design fancy reports counting the number of victims suffering from their activity. Resecurity believes the proactive, practical approach to disrupting cybercriminal chains is the key catalyst to combat ransomware activity worldwide. Blacklock ransomware compromise is a unique case when offensive cyber, combined with threat intelligence research capabilities, facilitated investigation workflow to uncover critical insights and target the actors regardless of how sophisticated their operations are.

Read more at Resecurity

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