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Cult Wines

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 4, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Dragonforce
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site
May 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cult Wines is a UK-based company transforming the fine wine industry by combining expertise, digital platforms, and innovative technology to support buying, selling, investing, and collecting fine wines. Through its Cult Wine Investment arm, it offers fine wine as an alternative asset class, serving collectors, investors, and wine enthusiasts globally. The company operates internationally with a presence in markets including the UK, US, Canada, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Industry
Fine Wine Investment & Trading

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (confirmed exfiltration) by the group. Given Cult Wines handles fine wine investment portfolios and client financial data, the exfiltration likely involves significant financial and personal data of investors and collectors at scale, warranting a high severity rating.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated approximately 308 GB of data from Cult Wines, with the disclosure status listed as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released or made available. The group's post describes the company's operations but does not specify the exact nature of all stolen files beyond the implied exfiltration.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client investment records
  • Financial documents
  • Corporate correspondence
  • Customer personal data
  • Transaction and portfolio data

What the group claims

Cult Wines is revolutionizing the fine wine industry by leveraging expertise, digital platforms, and innovative technology to enhance the buying, selling, investing, and collecting experience for producers and consumers. Their services support the entire life cycle of fine wine, ensuring transparency and secure transactions. Recognizing fine wine as a unique investment, Cult Wine Investment provides clients with a wealth of possibilities, combining heritage with cutting-edge technology to enrich portfolios and enhance lives. Targeting both new generations of wine drinkers and seasoned collectors, Cult Wines aims to build a global community around fine wine appreciation.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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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 627 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DRAGON FORCE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 4, 2026Cult Wines listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

Dragonforce has been linked to 627 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 452 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cult Wines is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 373 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means Cult Wines 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • 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.