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 20, 2026sopower.com listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 374 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, sopower.com is reported in Japan, a country with 108 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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Southern Power Systems, Inc.

listed as sopower.com · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 20, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: Japan
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: Mar 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Southern Power Systems, Inc. is a premier power distribution service company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The company specializes in electrical testing and commissioning, power transformers, switchgear and breakers, protective relays, substation construction and maintenance, plant maintenance, and engineering services. They offer 24/7 on-site and in-shop support and have been recognized among LWCC's Top 70 Safest Employers in 2019 and 2020.

Industry: Electrical Power Distribution & Maintenance Services
Address: 8501 Joor Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70818, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — The attack involves a confirmed data publication by DragonForce against a company operating in the energy/critical infrastructure sector (electrical power distribution, substation construction, and maintenance). Exfiltration and publication of data from a critical infrastructure-adjacent firm warrants a high severity rating, even absent a detailed data inventory in the truncated post.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated data from Southern Power Systems, Inc., with the disclosure status listed as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released. No specific ransom amount or total data size was stated in the post.

high

What the group claims

industrial electrical service provider located in Baton Rouge, LA. Founded in 1994, it specializes in electrical testing, commissioning, maintenance, switchgear, transformers, and substation services, serving as a trusted ally for power infrastructure

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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