HESCO

HESCO was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to dragonforce in December 2025. The organization, operating in the Manufacturing 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.

HESCO Foodservice Ltd., based out of Edmonton and Calgary, specializes in providing a wide range of products, cleaning supplies, commercial equipment, and kitch...

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.