Was Astec Valves & Fittings Pvt hit by ransomware?

Astec Valves & Fittings Pvt was listed by the Dragonforce ransomware operation (India), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Dragonforce ransomware group?

Dragonforce is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Astec Valves & Fittings Pvt breach?

Dragonforce published data attributed to Astec Valves & Fittings Pvt. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Astec Valves & Fittings Pvt

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 11, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jun 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Astec Valves & Fittings Pvt Ltd, established in 1965, manufactures high-quality instrumentation tube fittings, valves, and integrated assemblies for Oil & Gas, Refining, Petrochemical, Nuclear Power, and related sectors. The company operates in 40 countries with over 1 million installations globally and specializes in eco-friendly, innovative measurement and piping solutions.

Industry: Instrumentation & Piping Solutions; Valve & Fitting Manufacturing
Founded: 1965

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed_status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, no specific sensitive data categories (PII at scale, financial records, trade secrets) are explicitly itemized in the post, and no proof files/screenshots are quantified. The company operates in industrial manufacturing with global clients, suggesting moderate business sensitivity.

The dragonforce group claims to have conducted an attack on Astec Valves & Fittings, resulting in data exfiltration. The group has published data from the victim, though specific details on the scope or nature of exfiltrated information are not provided in the available post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business records
operational data
technical documentation

What the group claims

Astec Valves & Fittings Private Limited specializes in providing high-quality instrumentation and piping solutions for various industries, including Oil & Gas, Refining, Petrochemical, and Nuclear Power. Established in 1965, the company offers a range of products such as instrument tube fittings, valves, and integrated assemblies, with a focus on innovative technologies that enhance process measurement and reduce maintenance downtime. With a presence in 40 countries and over a million installations, Astec is recognized for its eco-friendly product technologies and has received multiple awards for technical innovation. Their clients include sectors like shipbuilding, water treatment, and pharmaceuticals, making them a trusted partner for instrumentation and piping engineers worldwide.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 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 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

June 11, 2026Astec Valves & Fittings Pvt listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Astec Valves & Fittings Pvt is reported in India, a country with 239 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means Astec Valves & Fittings Pvt 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.