Disclosure context

About Dragonforce

Dragonforce is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim selection. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their rapid accumulation of 439 documented victims suggests either sophisticated capabilities or possible connections to existing ransomware infrastructure. Based on their targeting patterns across diverse sectors including manufacturing, business services, technology, and construction, Dragonforce appears to employ opportunistic attack methodologies, though specific initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been publicly detailed by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Italy representing their most frequent victim locations, suggesting possible language capabilities or geographic operational preferences. As of current reporting, Dragonforce appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim acquisition, though the lack of detailed public analysis from major threat intelligence organizations indicates either operational security measures that have limited researcher visibility or that the group has not yet conducted sufficiently high-profile attacks to warrant extensive public documentation by CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group has been linked to 537 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 20, 2026liverpoolphil.com listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, liverpoolphil.com is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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Liverpool Philharmonic

listed as liverpoolphil.com · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 20, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Mar 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Liverpool Philharmonic is a UK-based arts organisation that operates Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and is home to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the UK's leading symphony orchestras. The organisation presents a wide programme of concerts, education initiatives, and community music programmes, and also operates youth ensembles, choir, and emerging musician fellowships. It serves audiences across Liverpool and beyond, with outreach programmes including In Harmony Liverpool.

Industry: Arts & Entertainment – Classical Music & Performing Arts
Address: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the ransomware group. Liverpool Philharmonic processes donor, ticketing, membership, and employee PII, and the organisation works with young people under safeguarding obligations, raising the sensitivity of any exfiltrated data. No data inventory is specified in the post, but the published status elevates severity beyond medium.

Dragonforce claims to have published data exfiltrated from Liverpool Philharmonic (liverpoolphil.com), with the disclosure status recorded as 'data_published', indicating data has been released rather than merely threatened.

high

What the group claims

The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, which hosts a variety of concerts and events.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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{"data":{"count":483,"publications":[{"uuid":"b008b8b7-0e47-416f-adcd-2313d8136de4","created_at":"2026-05-08T20:56:13.122134Z","name":"CF Evans Construction","website":"www.cfevans.com","address":"125 Regional Pkwy Ste 200, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 29118, United States","description":"A recognized leader in the multi-family housing construction industry, CF Evans Construction provides a product for developers. The company has thrived amid six decades.\nThe data of this company includes:\n    Corporate correspondence of senior executives\n    Financial documents\n    HR documents\n    Accounting documents\n    Certificates, contracts, passwords, databases, and much more.","weight":4775795351552,"is_timer_publication_stopped":false,"timer_publication":"2026-05-22T07:48:00Z","try_again":false,"tags":[],"logo_uuid":"f4e582dd-6562-4590-bac8-2b9e5c564853","is_transfering":false},{"uuid":"3827192f-9bb3-490c-9c1c-d28b382510cd","created_at":"2026-05-08T17:53:24.736605Z","name":"CMC Expertise Comptable","website":"cmcexpertise.fr","address":"32 Rue De La Clairière, Fort-de-France,","description":"CMC Expertise Comptable is a certified accounting firm located in Martinique, dedicated t…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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