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Lootah Group

Claimed by Snatch · listed 5 years ago

56m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 2, 2021
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Snatch
Status
Data leaked
Country
UAE
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Dec 2, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lootah Group is a Dubai-based international conglomerate founded in 1973 by Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed Lootah, a member of one of Dubai's founding families. The group has grown over nearly five decades into a multinational corporation with a broad portfolio of businesses and a worldwide presence. It operates across multiple sectors as a diversified holding entity headquartered in the UAE.

Industry
Diversified Conglomerate
Address
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Founded
1973

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor against a large, internationally operating conglomerate, indicating exfiltration of potentially significant business and corporate data. The scale of the organisation and the confirmed publication elevate this beyond medium severity.

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have compromised Lootah Group and has published data ('data_published' status), indicating exfiltration of company data. The specific categories of data exfiltrated and the volume are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate business data

What the group claims

Formed at the heart of UAE in 1973 by the vision of Mr. Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed Lootah who hails from a Founding Family in Dubai, Lootah Group has consistently grown to become an international corporation with a strong world-wide presence. A 47-year old global conglomerate,

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 2, 2021Lootah Group listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Snatch dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Lootah Group is reported in UAE, a country with 81 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means Lootah Group 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Snatch'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.