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Gelatissimo

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

378406359040
Data size
$4
Ransom
demanded
2m
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 7, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Dragonforce
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
Australia
Sector
Food/Retail
Listed on leak site
May 7, 2026
Data size
378406359040
Ransom demanded
$4

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gelatissimo is an Australian artisanal gelato chain that makes fresh gelato in-store daily across over 60 locations throughout Australia. The company operates a franchise model and seeks international expansion through a master franchise program. Headquartered in Rydalmere, New South Wales, it is marketed as Australia's favourite gelato brand.

Industry
Artisanal Gelato Retail & Franchising
Address
Unit 6, 9-11 South Street, Rydalmere, New South Wales, 2116, Australia

Attack summary

Severity: high — A large-scale confirmed exfiltration of ~378 GB of data from a franchise retail brand likely encompasses franchisee and customer PII, financial records, and operational data, representing significant business data exposure at scale.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated approximately 378 GB of data from Gelatissimo, with the listing published on 27 April 2026 and a disclosure timer set for 2 May 2026. The nature of the data at stake has not been further detailed in the post beyond the volume figure.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Exfiltrated company data (~378 GB)

What the group claims

A global brand seeking major investors with experience in retail and franchising to expand its artisanal ice cream chain through a master franchise program

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 7, 2026Gelatissimo listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site
Data size
378406359040
Ransom demanded
$4

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

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

See the full Dragonforce dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Food/Retail sector, which has 2 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gelatissimo is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means Gelatissimo appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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, ACSC (Australia), 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.