Was NewNet hit by ransomware?

NewNet 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?

Dragonforce is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the NewNet breach?

Dragonforce published data attributed to NewNet. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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NewNet

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 11 days ago

11d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 18, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: Saudi Arabia
Sector: Telecommunication
Listed on leak site: Jul 18, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NewNet S.A. is a Colombian IT security and risk management consulting firm founded in 1996. They provide information security, cybersecurity, business continuity, and GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) solutions, including consulting, managed services, and security operations centers (SOC/NOC).

Industry: Cybersecurity & IT Risk Management Consulting
Founded: 1996

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor (disclosed_status: data_published). NewNet handles sensitive client data and security consulting records; breach of their systems could expose client PII, security assessments, and business intelligence. No specific proof file count or data volume is stated, but the published disclosure status and nature of the company's operations (handling client security data) elevates this to high.

The dragonforce group claims to have breached NewNet S.A. and published exfiltrated data. The post does not specify what data categories were compromised or the scope of the exposure.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company records
Client information
Security/operational data

What the group claims

NewNet S.A. is a Colombian company specializing in managing IT risks, offering advanced and personalized data protection services. Their extensive range of services includes information security, cybersecurity, business continuity, and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions. They cater to various sectors, providing consulting, technology, and managed services to ensure optimal IT operations for their clients. With a commitment to quality and collaboration with recognized manufacturers, NewNet S.A. has been delivering reliable and secure technology solutions since 1996

Sources

Source

Indexed 11 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 645 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post July 27, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DRAGON FORCE.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 18, 2026NewNet listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

Dragonforce has been linked to 645 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Dragonforce dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunication sector, which has 172 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, NewNet is reported in Saudi Arabia, a country with 16 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means NewNet 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.