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

May 8, 2026CF Evans Construction 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, CF Evans Construction is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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CF Evans Construction

Claimed by dragonforce · listed 12 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 8, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: May 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CF Evans Construction is a premier multi-family construction firm headquartered in Orangeburg, South Carolina, with over 75 years of operating history. The company builds multi-family housing developments primarily across the Southeast United States, serving developers and investors. Its portfolio includes apartment communities, workforce housing, and active adult living projects.

Industry: Multi-Family Residential Construction
Address: 125 Regional Pkwy Ste 200, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 29118, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) and the exfiltrated set includes HR records, financial documents, executive correspondence, passwords, and databases — constituting significant sensitive business and potentially personal data at scale, though no explicit medical or government-regulated data is confirmed.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated data from CF Evans Construction and has published the files; the stolen data allegedly includes corporate correspondence of senior executives, financial documents, HR documents, accounting documents, certificates, contracts, passwords, and databases.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate correspondence of senior executives
Financial documents
HR documents
Accounting documents
Certificates
Contracts
Passwords
Databases

What the group claims

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. The data of this company includes: Corporate correspondence of senior executives Financial documents HR documents Accounting documents Certificates, contracts, passwords, databases, and much more.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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125 Regional Pkwy Ste 200, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 29118, United States
A recognized leader in the multi-family housing construction industry, CF Evans Construction provides a product for developers. The company has thrived amid six...
32 Rue De La Clairière, Fort-de-France,
CMC Expertise Comptable is a certified accounting firm located in Martinique, dedicated to providing comprehensive support in accounting, social, legal, and fis...
Publicated files: 
Cult Wines is revolutionizing the fine wine industry by leveraging expertise, digital platforms, and innovative technology to enhance the buying, selling, inves...
Etablerad redan 1979 och genom en merger med Eclipse Display 2020 kör vi nu full gas framåt på vår resa att bli nordens bästa partner när det gäller att förenkl...
Publicated files: 
99 High Street, 11th Floor, Boston, MA 02110, United States
MassDevelopment, a state agency for finance and development, partners with businesses, nonprofit organizations, financial institutions, and local communities t...
Publicated files: 
311 E 135th St, Kansas City, MO 64145
Rosehill Gardens is a professional la…

Sources

Source

Indexed 12 days ago

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