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Capital Star Oil & Gas, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 3, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Capital Star Oil & Gas, Inc. →

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: EnergyDiscovered: 2025-12-02
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Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Capital Star Oil & Gas, Inc. is a small independent oil & gas company based in Houston, Texas. Most of drilling activities are financed through private placement investments for investors looking for tax benefits, including deductions for intangible drilling costs (IDC). Minimizing risk by using 3-D seismic and expert consultants before selecting prospects. Capital Star Oil & Gas, Inc. was established in 2002.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Nov 3, 2025

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteNov 3 · first · this page
Indiana State AG+134d
Maine State AG+134d
Massachusetts State AG+135d
Texas State AG+135d

Pattern: first filing Nov 3, last Mar 18 (TX) — a 135-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.

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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