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, 2026STS Travel listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 159 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, STS Travel is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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STS Travel

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: United States
Sector: Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site: Mar 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

STS Travel is a US-based travel company specializing in spring break vacation packages for college students and groups, including fraternities, sororities, and graduation groups. They offer air-and-hotel packages to destinations such as Cancun, Nassau, Cabo San Lucas, Punta Cana, Montego Bay, and Las Vegas. The company provides on-site staff at destinations and operates through a network of student representatives and travel agents.

Industry: Student & Group Spring Break Travel Packages

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (confirmed exfiltration), and STS Travel handles PII for large numbers of college-age travelers including payment, booking, and personal identification data, representing significant consumer PII exposure at scale.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated data from STS Travel and has published the data; the leak post indicates the disclosed status is 'data_published,' suggesting exfiltration of company and customer records, though the specific data categories described in the leak post excerpt pertain to other victims listed in the same feed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer reservation records
Customer personal information
Travel agent and representative data
Corporate correspondence
Financial documents

What the group claims

STS Travel was founded in 1984 by two Cornell University graduates who shared one common goal: to specialize in the marketing and operation of travel services designed specifically for students. Since our foundation in 1984, STS has handled the travel plans of over a half of million student travelers. This tremendous volume gives STS a great deal of negotiating power, enabling us to assemble quality vacation packages within the budget confines of the student traveler. Today, we have evolved into one of America's premier collegiate tour operators, having student organizations, travel agents, and campus representatives representing STS on over 1000 campuses throughout the United States.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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