Was Al - Saidi Factory hit by ransomware?

Al - Saidi Factory was listed by the Dragonforce ransomware operation (Saudi Arabia), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Dragonforce ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the Al - Saidi Factory breach?

Dragonforce published data attributed to Al - Saidi Factory. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Al Saidi Group

listed as Al - Saidi Factory · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 12, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: Saudi Arabia
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jul 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Al Saidi Group is a Middle Eastern conglomerate providing chemical manufacturing and global logistics solutions. The group operates multiple subsidiaries including Al-Saidi Chemicals (oilfield chemicals), Saudi Multichem (oil & gas chemical solutions), Medra Arabia (oil extraction equipment and services), and Al Saidi Logistics (freight forwarding and supply chain management). Founded in 2008, the company serves clients across the Middle East in the oil, gas, and petrochemical sectors.

Industry: Chemical Manufacturing & Global Logistics
Founded: 2008

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration. However, no specific sensitive data types (PII, financial records, government/defence material) are confirmed in the leak post, and no proof files or screenshots are advertised. The company operates in a regulated industry (chemicals, oil & gas) which elevates concern, but lack of proof or data inventory detail prevents higher classification.

DragonForce claims to have breached Al Saidi Group and published exfiltrated data. The post does not specify the volume of data, operational disruption, or detail what categories of information were taken.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Client information
Supply chain data
Chemical product specifications

What the group claims

Al Saidi Al Saidi Trading and Industry is a prominent group of companies providing tailored chemical and logistics solutions primarily for clients in the Middle East. They offer a comprehensive range of global logistics services, including supply chain management and freight forwarding, designed to enhance business efficiency. Additionally, the company specializes in manufacturing chemicals for the Oil & Gas and petrochemical industries, focusing on reliability and sustainability. With a commitment to high-quality, environmentally friendly products, Al Saidi aims to support clients in maximizing their operational effectiveness.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days 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 627 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DRAGON FORCE.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 12, 2026Al - Saidi Factory listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Al - Saidi Factory is reported in Saudi Arabia, a country with 16 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means Al - Saidi Factory 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.
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.