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GLOBALMalwareTransportation & LogisticsTransportationRansomwareDragonforceRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

Express Logistics and Distribution Ltd

bd_bb05d5e4cf73cfba · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 11, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Express Logistics and Distribution Ltd

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Transportation/LogisticsDiscovered: 2025-10-11

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

We expect Express Logistics and Distribution Ltd to contact us to prevent the publication of a large volume of private data over many years. Express Logistics and Distribution Ltd. is the most advanced distribution and logistics company in Bulgaria, with the largest direct market coverage, 900 employees and a fleet of 380 vehicles. Express Logistics and Distribution Ltd. is one of the 10 largest companies in Bulgaria. ELD is ranked 5th most dynamic company in Southeast Europe, according to "SEE TOP 100" research. We develop long-term partnership with companies which prefer honesty, reliability and security.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 11, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2022-10-20

dragonforce

According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.

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