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Customs Watch

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 6 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 16, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Public Sector
Listed on leak site
Jul 16, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Customs Watch is an intelligence and IT consulting firm specializing in anti-counterfeiting and product protection strategies. Founded in 2001, the company serves the pharmaceutical sector and works with 22 of the 25 largest pharmaceutical companies globally.

Industry
Intelligence & IT Consulting; Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection
Employees
51-200
Founded
2001

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration from a consulting firm with deep access to 22 of the 25 largest pharmaceutical companies globally; high-value intelligence and IP exposure affecting critical pharmaceutical supply chain security.

The threat actor claims to have exfiltrated data from Customs Watch. The group has published data and disclosed the attack but no specific operational details or data categories are described in the available post excerpt.

high

What the group claims

***.com zoominfo.com/c/customs-watch/467458469 is an intelligence and IT consulting company specializing in anti-counterfeiting and product protection strategies throughout their lifecycle. The company primarily serves the pharmaceutical sector, working with 22 of the 25 largest pharmaceutical companies globally. Founded in 2001, it employs 51 to 200 people and is an active member of the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition.

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 618 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 16, 2026Customs Watch listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 618 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Customs Watch is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Customs Watch appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on thegentlemen's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.