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 20, 2026Edifice Design + Architecture listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 415 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Edifice Design + Architecture 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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Edifice Design + Architecture

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 20, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Mar 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Edifice Design + Architecture is a US-based architecture and design firm operating under the brand 'Edifice DNA' (www.edificedna.com). The firm offers design and architectural services, promoting 'beautifully crafted solutions' across a portfolio of projects. The scale and headcount of the firm are not publicly determinable from available sources.

Industry: Architecture & Design Services

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published by the group, indicating confirmed exfiltration; however, no specific sensitive regulated data categories (e.g., PII at scale, medical, financial records) are described, no data volume is stated, and the leak post excerpt does not contain a specific entry for this victim with enumerated data types, limiting severity to medium.

Dragonforce claims to have exfiltrated data from Edifice Design + Architecture, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating stolen data has been or is being released. No ransom amount or data size was stated in the post.

medium

What the group claims

We shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us - Winston Churchill At Edifice, we believe architecture and design have a unique physical, spiritual, and psychological relationship with our lives. Whether we recognize it or not, design and the buildings we live in, shape our experiences and impact each of us in every aspect of our lives. Innovation and the built environment affect how we live, work, worship and sleep. We believe design and architecture can embrace and provide a unique canvas for our lives, which happens in and around them. As the architect Peter Zumthor said, architecture is a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep. We believe excellent design and architecture can complement, accentuate, and highlight the best in the world around us, lifting our environments, building our community, and shaping us into something better. We believe buildings have the potential to EDIFY us and weall deserve to be edified. We believe this is our role, as architects and designers, to EDIFY individuals by crafting environments that inspire, and bring peace and beauty.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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{"data":{"count":483,"publications":[{"uuid":"b008b8b7-0e47-416f-adcd-2313d8136de4","created_at":"2026-05-08T20:56:13.122134Z","name":"CF Evans Construction","website":"www.cfevans.com","address":"125 Regional Pkwy Ste 200, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 29118, United States","description":"A recognized leader in the multi-family housing construction industry, CF Evans Construction provides a product for developers. The company has thrived amid six decades.\nThe data of this company includes:\n    Corporate correspondence of senior executives\n    Financial documents\n    HR documents\n    Accounting documents\n    Certificates, contracts, passwords, databases, and much more.","weight":4775795351552,"is_timer_publication_stopped":false,"timer_publication":"2026-05-22T07:48:00Z","try_again":false,"tags":[],"logo_uuid":"f4e582dd-6562-4590-bac8-2b9e5c564853","is_transfering":false},{"uuid":"3827192f-9bb3-490c-9c1c-d28b382510cd","created_at":"2026-05-08T17:53:24.736605Z","name":"CMC Expertise Comptable","website":"cmcexpertise.fr","address":"32 Rue De La Clairière, Fort-de-France,","description":"CMC Expertise Comptable is a certified accounting firm located in Martinique, dedicated t…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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