Was Zelenkofske Axelrod hit by ransomware?

Zelenkofske Axelrod was listed by the Dragonforce ransomware operation (United States), 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?

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What data was leaked in the Zelenkofske Axelrod breach?

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

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Zelenkofske Axelrod LLC

listed as Zelenkofske Axelrod · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Feb 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Zelenkofske Axelrod LLC (ZA) is a Pennsylvania-based regional CPA firm with offices in Harrisburg, Greensburg, Pittsburgh, Greater Philadelphia, Frankford (DE), and Annapolis (MD). The firm specializes in auditing, accounting & consulting, and tax services exclusively for non-profit and governmental entities of all sizes. ZA offers financial statement audits, single audits, employee benefit plan audits, forensic audits, tax preparation, and custom management advisory services.

Industry: Certified Public Accounting & Auditing (Non-Profit & Government)
Address: Multiple offices in Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Greensburg, Pittsburgh, Greater Philadelphia), Frankford, DE, and Annapolis, MD

Attack summary

Severity: critical — ZA is a CPA firm handling sensitive financial, tax, and audit data for governmental and non-profit entities. Exfiltration and publication of such data constitutes confirmed exfiltration of regulated financial and PII data at scale, potentially affecting numerous government bodies and non-profits that rely on the firm, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

Dragonforce claims to have exfiltrated data from Zelenkofske Axelrod LLC, with the disclosure status listed as 'data_published', indicating that stolen data has been released. The nature of the exfiltrated data has not been itemized in the leak post excerpt, but the firm handles sensitive financial, tax, and audit records for governmental and non-profit clients.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial records
Tax returns and filings
Audit workpapers
Government entity financial data
Non-profit organization records
Employee benefit plan data
Client accounting records
Personally identifiable information (individuals and entities)

What the group claims

Zelenkofske Axelrod, LLC (ZA) is a regional CPA firm based in Pennsylvania, with multiple offices providing auditing, accounting consulting, and tax services primarily to non-profit and governmental entities. The firm prides itself on its hands-on approach and deep specialization in the governmental sector, serving clients of all sizes with tailored solutions.

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 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

February 23, 2026Zelenkofske Axelrod listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Zelenkofske Axelrod 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 Zelenkofske Axelrod 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.