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ART Coating Technologies

listed as Advanced Rehabilitation Technology (ART) · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 3 months ago

3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 6, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Mar 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Based on the clearnet site artcoatingtech.com, ART Coating Technologies (listed as 'Advanced Rehabilitation Technology (ART)' in the leak) appears to be a surface coating and finishing company operating in the United States. No public site content was available to confirm further operational details, scale, or location. The victim name 'Advanced Rehabilitation Technology' and the domain 'artcoatingtech.com' are mismatched, suggesting either a misidentification by the threat actor or an internal branding discrepancy.

Industry
Industrial Surface Coating & Finishing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no specific regulated or sensitive data categories (PII at scale, medical, financial) are enumerated in the available post excerpt, and the victim identity itself is uncertain due to a mismatch between the stated name and the clearnet domain.

Dragonforce claims to have exfiltrated data from the victim and has published it (disclosed status: data_published); the specific data categories and volume are not described in the truncated leak post excerpt provided.

medium

What the group claims

Advanced Rehabilitation Technology (ART) specializes in state-of-the-art no-dig technology solutions aimed at protecting and extending the life of critical infrastructure. The company offers innovative products and services for the rehabilitation of water and wastewater structures, including manholes, stormwater culverts, and potable water systems. ART's solutions are designed to be cost-effective and long-lasting, addressing issues such as corrosion and structural integrity while ensuring compliance with health standards. Their intended clients include municipalities and industries seeking to maintain and enhance their infrastructure without the need for extensive excavation

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Sources

Source

Indexed 3 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 596 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 6, 2026Advanced Rehabilitation Technology (ART) listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,780 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Advanced Rehabilitation Technology (ART) is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means Advanced Rehabilitation Technology (ART) 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.

Advanced Rehabilitation Technology (ART) data breach — Dragonforce ransomware leak (2026) · Darkfield