National Credit Regulator (NCR)
Attack Intelligence
National Credit Regulator (NCR) was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to dragonforce in December 2025. The organization, operating in the Financial Services sector in South Africa, 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.
The National Credit Regulator (NCR) is the statutory body established under the National Credit Act 34 of 2005 to regulate the South African credit industry. Th...
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.