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R & D Machine and Engineering

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 14 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 18, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Dragonforce
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Aug 18, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

R&D Machine and Engineering, LLC is a CNC precision metal machining company specializing in aerospace, defense, and space industry components. Located in Oldsmar, Florida, the company is AS 9100 and ISO 9001 certified and counts NASA among its customers. The company was acquired by Compass Precision in 2022.

Industry
Precision Metal Machining & Aerospace Components
Address
130 Scarlet Blvd, Oldsmar, Florida, United States

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data exfiltration confirmed by publication on dark-web leak site and inclusion in RaaS dashboard; however, no specific data inventory or proof files are detailed in the post. Aerospace/defense sector data has inherent sensitivity but scale and content remain unspecified.

The dragonforce group claims to have exfiltrated data from R&D Machine and Engineering. The leak post does not specify what data categories were stolen or provide operational details of the breach.

medium

What the group claims

&D Machine and Engineering, LLC specializes in CNC machining of precision metal components primarily for the aerospace, defense, and space industries. The company is known for its ability to maintain tight tolerances and produce complex geometries using advanced 5-axis milling and coordinate measuring machines. With a commitment to quality, R&D Machine has built a strong customer base that includes respected blue-chip companies like NASA. Acquired by Compass Precision in 2022, the company continues to focus on manufacturing mission-critical components for demanding applications.

The leak post

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### R & D Machine and Engineering
130 Scarlet Blvd, Oldsmar, Florida
&D Machine and Engineering, LLC specializes in CNC machining of precision metal components primarily for the aerospace, defense, and space industries. The compa...
Publicated files: 
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Publicated files: 
531 5th Street Parkersburg WV 26101, West Virginia, United States
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Sources

Source

Indexed 14 hours 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 658 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post August 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DRAGON FORCE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 18, 2026R & D Machine and Engineering listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

Dragonforce has been linked to 658 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,692 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, R & D Machine and Engineering is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means R & D Machine and Engineering 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • 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.