What other aliases and vendor names is DragonForce known by?

DragonForce is tracked across the cybersecurity industry by multiple aliases, including: DFRC, DragonForce Malaysia, DragonForce Ransomware Cartel, G1053, Slippery Scorpius, Storm-0501.

What are the primary motivations and sponsors of DragonForce?

DragonForce operates from Malaysia with primary motivation categorized as financial gain, sponsored or affiliated with State-sponsored / Independent.

DragonForce

ACTIVE CAMPAIGN TRACKED ⚠ Critical Threat Malaysia

Primary Aliases: DFRC DragonForce Malaysia DragonForce Ransomware Cartel G1053

Primary Motivation financial gain

Confidence Rating 90% (Grounded)

UK High-Street Retail Campaign, Hybrid Cloud Pivot, US SMB Sector Wave

🎯 Target Sectors & Focus

Retail Manufacturing Healthcare Logistics Technology Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) Professional Services

🛡️ MITRE ATT&CK® Attack Lifecycle (8 TTPs)

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Persistence & Privilege Escalation 1

T1547 Entra ID (Azure AD) privilege escalation and persistence via malicious federated domains

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Defense Evasion 1

T1027 BYOVD (Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver) using truesight.sys and rentdrv2.sys to disable EDR

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Credential Access & Discovery 2

T1003 Vishing and advanced social engineering (via Muddled Libra partnership)

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T1003 Post-compromise discovery using AzureHound

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Command & Control 2

T1071 Double Extortion (Data Exfiltration + Encryption)

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T1071 C2 concealment using Backdoor.Turn via Microsoft Teams TURN relay infrastructure

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Operational Techniques 2

T1000 White-label RaaS/Cartel Model

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T1000 Cloud-native extortion (deletion of Azure backups and data without endpoint encryptors)

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DragonForce

🎯 Target Sectors & Focus

🛡️ MITRE ATT&CK® Attack Lifecycle (8 TTPs)

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