Elara Engineering
About the organisation
Elara Engineering is a full-service Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Protection, and Technology consulting engineering firm based in Chicago, Illinois. With 25 years of experience, the company specializes in the design, costing, delivery, and oversight of building and utility systems, offering both pre-design and post-construction services. Their clients include educational institutions, municipal entities, and residential developers, focusing on sustainable and innovative engineering solutions. Elara Engineering is committed to reducing energy consumption and carbon footprints through its projects and embraces diversity within its workforce
What the listing means
Elara Engineering appeared on the dragonforce leak site on 01 April 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 39 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Elara Engineering as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on elaraeng.com, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Construction organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/RWxhcmEgRW5naW5lZXJpbmdAZHJhZ29uZm9yY2U=
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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.
