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FHW Neukölln

listed as fhw-neukoelln.de · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 2, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Dragonforce
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Listed on leak site
Apr 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

FHW Neukölln (Fernheizwerk Neukölln) is a district heating utility serving the southern Berlin borough of Neukölln, Germany. The company generates and distributes local thermal energy ('Kiezwärme') to residential and commercial customers via a district heating network. It is a publicly traded entity with investor relations and corporate governance disclosures.

Industry
District Heating & Energy Supply
Address
Neukölln, Berlin, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: critical — FHW Neukölln is a critical infrastructure energy utility (district heating operator). Confirmed data publication by the threat actor, with likely exfiltration of operational, financial, HR, and potentially customer PII data from an energy supplier serving a dense urban area.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated data from FHW Neukölln and has published it ('data_published' status), though no ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate correspondence
  • Financial documents
  • HR documents
  • Accounting documents
  • Contracts
  • Passwords
  • Databases

What the group claims

Fernheizwerk Neukölln provides heat to homes in the Berlin-Neukölln district. This local heating company generates and supplies heat to approximately 40,000 homes, ensuring a comfortable temperature during the cold months. They make every effort to provide reliable heat to the community by connecting homes to efficient heating systems throughout the district.

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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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 596 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 2, 2026fhw-neukoelln.de listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

Dragonforce has been linked to 596 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, fhw-neukoelln.de is reported in Germany, a country with 334 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means fhw-neukoelln.de 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.