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 26, 2026pridesol.com listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, pridesol.com is reported in Bangladesh, a country with 2 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.

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Pride Chemical Solutions, Inc.

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

55d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 26, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: Bangladesh
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pride Chemical Solutions, Inc. (formerly Pride Solvents & Chemical Company) is a family-owned, independent chemical distributor headquartered in the Northeastern United States, operating since 1970. The company is an authorized distributor for major chemical and solvent producers including Dow, ExxonMobil, Evonik, and Procter & Gamble Chemicals, serving industries such as food, pharmaceutical, personal care, fragrance, and coatings across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. It received the NACD Responsible Distribution Process Excellence Award in 2007.

Industry: Chemical Distribution
Address: New York Office: 631-758-0200 (Long Island, NY); New Jersey Office: 732-499-0125 (NJ) — no single street address published on public site
Founded: 1970

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor against a chemical distributor handling pharmaceutical, food, and industrial-grade chemical products; exfiltration of business and potentially regulated supply-chain or safety data (e.g., SDS, customer records, financial documents) from a critical-sector distributor warrants a high severity rating even without a confirmed data inventory.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated data from Pride Chemical Solutions, Inc. and has published the data; the leak post is categorized as 'data_published' with no ransom amount stated and no specific data size disclosed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Exfiltrated company data (type unspecified in post)

What the group claims

Pride Solvents & Chemical Co. is an authorized distributor of the largest and most reputable global manufacturers of chemical products and solvents. This list includes companies such as Dow, Exxon, BASF, Sasol, ADM, Penreco, P&G, and Stepan—just to name a few. With an advanced production facility, a fully equipped analytical laboratory, extensive warehouse inventory, and a modern transportation fleet, the company is able to provide an unmatched level of service to customers across all industries—from the state of Maine to Virginia, and westward as far as Ohio.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

```
{"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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