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

April 27, 2026Promotion AB 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. Geographically, Promotion AB is reported in SE, a country with 9 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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Promotion AB

Claimed by dragonforce · listed 23 days ago

23d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: SE
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Apr 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Promotion AB is a Swedish supplier of retail store equipment and consumables, established in 1979 and merged with Eclipse Display in 2020. The company provides a broad range of products including signage, shelving, display systems, packaging, and consumables aimed at making retail operations more efficient. It positions itself as a partner for store managers and department heads across the Nordic region.

Industry: Retail Store Supplies & Display Equipment
Founded: 1979

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published (disclosed status: data_published) with ~158 GB exfiltrated, but the leak post provides no detail on regulated or sensitive data categories such as PII, financial records, or medical data; the victim is a mid-sized B2B retail supplier with no indication of critical-infrastructure relevance.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated approximately 158 GB of data from Promotion AB and published it, with a disclosure timer that has expired, indicating data has been released. No specific data categories were enumerated in the leak post description.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company data (unspecified)

What the group claims

Etablerad redan 1979 och genom en merger med Eclipse Display 2020 kör vi nu full gas framåt på vår resa att bli nordens bästa partner när det gäller att förenklar vardagen för dig som driver en butik!

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 23 days ago

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