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 28, 2026SSP Airport Gastronomiegesellschaft mbH listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Data size: 769.34 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Aviation/Food Service sector. Geographically, SSP Airport Gastronomiegesellschaft mbH is reported in Germany, a country with 695 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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SSP Airport Gastronomiegesellschaft mbH

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

769.34 GB

Data size

53d

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 28, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: Germany
Sector: Aviation/Food Service
Listed on leak site: Mar 28, 2026
Data size: 769.34 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SSP Airport Gastronomiegesellschaft mbH is a German subsidiary of SSP Group, operating food and beverage outlets within airports. The company trades under the SSP Central Europe brand (ssp-ce.de) and manages catering concessions across airport terminals in Germany. SSP Group is a global operator of food and drink brands in travel locations including airports and railway stations.

Industry: Airport Food & Beverage Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — 769.34 GB of exfiltrated data represents a substantial volume that likely includes employee PII, financial records, and operational data from an airport-environment operator; exfiltration is confirmed by the group's claim and data size, though no public proof files are explicitly advertised in the truncated post.

Dragonforce claims to have exfiltrated approximately 769.34 GB of data from SSP Airport Gastronomiegesellschaft mbH and has listed the company on its leak site. No ransom amount has been stated and no details on encryption of systems have been provided.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Potentially employee records
Potentially financial records
Operational/concession data

What the group claims

Data from airport gastronomy company operating in air transport and aviation services

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitessp-ce.de
Leak posthttp://z3wqggtxft7id3ibr7srivv5gjof5fwg76slewnzwwakjuf3nlhukdid.onion/api/guest/blog/posts?page=1

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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