Ransomware victim disclosure

K. Smart Associates Limited

listed as ksmart.ca · Claimed by dragonforce · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: CA
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: May 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

K. Smart Associates Limited is a consulting engineering and planning company established in 1975, specializing in civil engineering, land use planning, structural monitoring, building sciences, and legal land surveying. The firm operates multiple locations and provides services across municipal, drainage, bridge, wastewater, and structural engineering sectors.

Industry: Consulting Engineering & Land Use Planning
Founded: 1975

Attack summary

Severity: low — Only listing/announcement with no substantive proof files, data inventory, or operational impact details disclosed. No confirmation of exfiltration or encryption.

The dragonforce group claims to have compromised K. Smart Associates Limited and published data; however, no specific details about the nature of the compromise (encryption vs. exfiltration) or data categories are provided in the leak post.

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What the group claims

K. Smart Associates Limited is a consulting engineering and planning company established in 1975, specialising in civil engineering and land use planning.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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85 McIntyre DriveKitchener, Ontario, N2R 1H6
K. Smart Associates Limited is a consulting engineering and planning company established in 1975, specialising in civil engineering and land use planning.
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Sources

Source

Indexed 4 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 576 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post May 27, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 27, 2026ksmart.ca listed by dragonforceon the group's public leak site

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