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 27, 2026Groupe Courtois Automobiles listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Groupe Courtois Automobiles is reported in France, a country with 472 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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Groupe Courtois Automobiles

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

54d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Groupe Courtois Automobiles is a French automotive group operating under the domain groupe-courtois.fr. Based in France, the group is engaged in the sale and distribution of automobiles, likely representing multiple brands across dealership locations. No further details on scale or founding date were available from the provided sources.

Industry: Automotive Retail & Distribution

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), confirming exfiltration. An automotive group likely holds customer PII, financial records, and contracts, making the published data release a significant business and privacy risk even without a stated data size.

Dragonforce claims to have exfiltrated data from Groupe Courtois Automobiles, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released or made available. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Exfiltrated company data (type unspecified)

What the group claims

Groupe Courtois is an automotive dealership specializing in Honda vehicles, with over 40 years of experience in the automotive industry. They operate in Chambourcy and Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône,

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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