ksmart.ca

ksmart.ca was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to dragonforce in May 2026. The organization, operating in the Consumer Services sector in Canada, 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.

K. Smart Associates Limited is a consulting engineering and planning company established in 1975, specialising in civil engineering and land use planning.

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.