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, 2026ssp-ce.de listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $50M

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, ssp-ce.de is reported in Germany, a country with 695 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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SSP CE GmbH

listed as ssp-ce.de · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

$50M

Ransom

demanded

55d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 26, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 26, 2026
Ransom demanded: $50M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SSP CE (ssp-ce.de) is a Germany-based engineering or technical consulting firm operating under the .de domain. Based on the domain structure and sector classification of 'Technology,' the company appears to provide specialised engineering or consulting services. No additional detail was available from the public site or the truncated leak post.

Industry: Engineering & Technical Consulting

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor (data_published status confirmed), indicating confirmed exfiltration rather than a mere listing. A $50M ransom demand suggests the actor assessed significant data value. Insufficient detail to elevate to critical without confirmed regulated/PII-at-scale evidence.

Dragonforce claims to have compromised ssp-ce.de and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), demanding a $50M ransom. The specific data categories exfiltrated are not enumerated in the available leak post excerpt.

high

What the group claims

SSP Airport Gastronomiegesellschaft mbH operates in the air transport, airport, and aviation services sectors. The company employs between 250 and 499 people and generates annual revenue of between $50 million and $100 million. The company is headquartered in Eschborn, Hesse, Germany.

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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