Heartland Growers

Heartland Growers was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to dragonforce in May 2026. The organization, operating in the Agriculture and Food Production sector in United States, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.

dragonforce operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.

Heartland Growers is a full-service wholesale greenhouse located in Westfield, Indiana, owned and operated by the Gapinski Family since 1984. The company suppli...

Intelligence correlations link this incident to 1 vulnerability(ies) including CVE-2025-5777, which may have been leveraged as initial access vectors or for lateral movement.