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

May 20, 2026Vega 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.

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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Vega Corporation

listed as Vega · Claimed by dragonforce · listed 15 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 20, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: May 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vega Corporation is a full-service general contractor, construction manager, and facilities maintenance contractor based in Tennessee with operations throughout Tennessee and neighboring states. The company specializes in design-build, renovation, and construction projects across manufacturing, industrial, telecommunications, healthcare, power generation, and institutional sectors, emphasizing long-term customer relationships.

Industry: General Contracting & Construction Management
Address: Tennessee, USA

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published ('data_published' status), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, no specific data types, volumes, or proof files are described in the available leak post. The company is a construction contractor (not critical infrastructure) with no indication of regulated data exposure, placing this at medium severity pending clarification of the actual data compromised.

The dragonforce group claims to have compromised Vega Corporation and published data. The leak post does not explicitly detail what data was exfiltrated or whether encryption occurred, but the 'data_published' status indicates exfiltration.

medium

What the group claims

Vega combines elite technical skills with personalized customer service and environmental stewardship to excel in the industrial and manufacturing sector. From the loading docks through the warehouse, assembly line, raw product processing, storage, distribution and into the administration areas, the company's work is designed to support the company's customer's operations in the production of everything from fabrication to perishables. "I/the company continue to use Vega not because the company has to but because the company want to. Vega brings a lot of knowledge and experience with them to the table and adds a great amount of value to the company's projects. The company value the company's relationship with them and expect it to continue for a long, long time

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Ingelan is a provider of engineering solutions for systems and communications environments. It specializes in security of information systems, information syste...
Publicated files: 
LeRoy Surveyors & Engineers, INC. specializes in property boundary surveying, topographic surveys, and subdivision surveys, primarily serving clients in the Puy...
Publicated files: 
Tricon Infotech delivers efficient, automated solutions and full digital transformations through custom products and enterpris…

Sources

Source

Indexed 15 hours ago

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