Threat actor analysis
Blacklocks has disclosed 4 victims on its leak site, 0% of all ransomware listings tracked in this database. Its earliest disclosure here dates to September 2026.
The group has listed organisations in 2 countries, most often in South Africa (2 victims), followed by South Korea.
By industry, its listings concentrate in Manufacturing, Transportation, Professional Services — sectors that hold sensitive data or cannot tolerate long outages, both of which raise the pressure to pay.
Like most current ransomware operations, Blacklocks is likely to use double extortion: data is stolen before files are encrypted, and organisations that refuse to pay are named on the leak site with the stolen data as leverage.