Inside DragonForce: How a Ransomware Cartel’s Payload Actually Runs

A technical walkthrough from runtime preparation and network-share discovery to concurrent file encryption DragonForce is a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation that first surfaced in mid-to-late 2023. It initially presented itself as a hacktivist collective before shifting to a profit-driven model. Early payloads were built on leaked LockBit 3.0 source code and later supplemented with code derived from the leaked Conti builder.