Was Betesan hit by ransomware?

Betesan was listed by the Dragonforce ransomware operation (Turkey), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Dragonforce ransomware group?

Dragonforce is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Betesan breach?

Dragonforce published data attributed to Betesan. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Betesan Mühendislik

listed as Betesan · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 13, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: Turkey
Listed on leak site: Feb 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Betesan Mühendislik is a Turkish engineering company founded in 1992 in the Tuzla shipyard district of Istanbul, specializing in marine electrical contracting, ship power and automation systems, and electrical panel and control console manufacturing. The company serves both commercial and military maritime sectors as well as industrial clients, offering design, project engineering, integration, and testing services. It reports over 250 personnel, 550 completed projects, and 30 years of experience across more than 120 product types.

Industry: Marine & Industrial Electrical Systems Manufacturing
Address: Evliya Çelebi Mah. Rauf Orbay Cad. No:17 Tuzla / İSTANBUL, Turkey
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 1992

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published (exfiltrated and released) by a known ransomware group. The victim operates in the marine and military naval sector, meaning potential exposure of sensitive engineering, defence-adjacent project data, and business records. The military/defence dimension elevates severity toward critical but without confirmed volume or explicit regulated-data categories, 'high' is appropriate.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated data from Betesan and has published the data; the disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating confirmed exfiltration of company data. No ransom amount was stated and no specific data size was provided in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate correspondence
Engineering and project documents
Financial documents
HR documents
Contracts
Certificates
Technical schematics or design files
Customer and supplier records

What the group claims

Betesan is a leading engineering company established in 1992 in Tuzla, specializing in ship electrical contracting and supply of electrical materials. The company offers innovative and high-quality solutions in ship power and automation systems, electrical panels, and control consoles, catering to the maritime and industrial sectors. Betesan also provides tailored solutions for military maritime needs, energy transmission, and processing industries, ensuring reliability and efficiency. With over 30 years of experience, Betesan serves a diverse clientele, including ship owners and operators, industrial facilities, and military forces.

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 4 months ago

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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 597 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post June 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DRAGON FORCE.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 13, 2026Betesan listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

Geographically, Betesan is reported in Turkey, a country with 77 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means Betesan 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Dragonforce'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.