Empire Express

Empire Express was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to dragonforce in February 2026. The organization, operating in the Transportation/Logistics 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.

Empire Express, Inc. provides trucking transportation services. The company offers transports clothing and apparel, air cargo, home and office products, packaging and containers, retail, electronics, cotton, and general commodities. Empire Express operates in the United States.

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.