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Canadian Mennonite University (CMU)

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 12, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Dragonforce
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Oct 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is a Christian liberal arts institution in Winnipeg, Manitoba, offering undergraduate degrees in arts, business, music, sciences, and graduate programs in theology, ministry, business administration, and peacebuilding. The university emphasizes community learning and spiritual development with approximately 1,000+ students.

Industry
Higher Education
Address
500 Shaftesbury Boulevard, Winnipeg, MB R3P 2N2, Canada

Attack summary

Severity: low — CMU is listed in a multi-victim leak post with no specific proof files, data inventory, or operational impact details disclosed. The post appears to be an index or archive announcement with minimal substantive evidence specific to CMU.

The dragonforce group claims to have compromised Canadian Mennonite University. The leak post lists CMU among 24+ victim organizations but provides no specific details about what data was exfiltrated, encryption activities, or proof of the breach related to CMU.

low

What the group claims

Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is a Christian institution in Winnipeg, Manitoba, offering undergraduate degrees in various fields such as arts, business, music, and sciences, along with three graduate degree programs. The university focuses on a small community environment that fosters academic, social, and spiritual growth, welcoming students from diverse backgrounds and beliefs. CMU emphasizes preparing students as skilled problem solvers and leaders committed to positive change in their communities and beyond. It offers financial aid and supports approximately 50% of its students through scholarships and bursaries

The leak post

captured from the group's site
500 Shaftesbury Boulevard Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3P 2N2
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is a Christian institution in Winnipeg, Manitoba, offering undergraduate degrees in various fields such as arts, business, m...
Publicated files: 
311 Rene Descartes, Ate, Lima region, 15012, Peru
(A release of 750 GB of data, compressed into archives for convenience.) TQC Tecnología Química Comercio S. A. specializes in providing high-quality solutions f...
No. 65, Zhouzi Street, Neihu District, Taipei, Taiwan
TEXMA International Co., Ltd. is a leading Taiwanese apparel manufacturer specializing in high-quality women's woven apparel, activewear, and sportswear. Founde...
Publicated files: 
### Petrosul Distribuidora, Transportadora e Comércio de Combustíveis Ltda.
Petrosul is a Brazilian company established in 1994, specializing in fuel storage terminal operations since 2015. The company offers state-of-the-art infrastruc...
Publicated files: 
Réso specializes in secondary works, offering a wide range of products including ceilings, partitions, floors, technical floors, and facades. They provide modul...
Publicated files: 
No. 225, Lane 54, An Ho Road Sec. 2 Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C
On August 3…

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 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 680 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post October 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DRAGON FORCE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 12, 2026Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) listed by Dragonforce on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

Dragonforce has been linked to 680 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 Education sector, which has 1,089 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is reported in Canada, a country with 320 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) 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, CCCS (Canada), 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.