Was Zanini hit by ransomware?

Zanini was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Brazil), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Zanini breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Zanini. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Zanini

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 7, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Brazil
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Sep 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Zanini is a global market leader in automotive wheel trim, founded in 1965 in Barcelona and owned by the Torras family since 1976. With 1,800 employees across 12 plants on three continents, it manufactures approximately 100 million wheel covers annually for major OEMs, plus grilles, emblems, EV charge-port covers, and pedestrian airbag components. The company specializes in proprietary technologies including ZANICHROME® metallization and radar-transparent illuminated emblems for autonomous-driving applications.

Industry: Automotive Trim & Components Manufacturing
Address: C/ Marineta 2, Polígono Industrial Llevant, 08150 Parets del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain
Employees: 1800
Founded: 1965

Attack summary

Severity: low — Data has been published on a leak site, but no proof files are advertised, no specific data categories are disclosed, and no operational impact or ransom demand is stated. The disclosure appears to be a listing-only announcement.

The ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Zanini but provides no specific details of what was accessed or encrypted. No proof files, screenshots, or data inventory is advertised in the leak post.

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What the group claims

zanini.com zoominfo.com/c/zanini/359207305 Zanini is the global market leader in automotive wheel trim — a Spanish family firm founded in 1965 in Barcelona, owned by the Torras family since 1976, with 1,800 employees across 12 plants on 3 continents. It makes 1 in 4 wheel covers sold worldwide (~100M units/year) for virtually every major OEM, plus grilles, emblems, EV charge-port covers and pedestrian airbag parts. Its strategic pivot: radar-transparent, heated & illuminated front emblems (radomes) — first launched on VW Atlas, now featured on the new Mercedes CLA (2025) — the key sensor window for the autonomous-driving era. Proprietary tech: ZANICHROME® metallization (chrome-look without chrome, "night & day" effects, electromagnetic transparency) + 17 patent families and TactoTek IMSE license (2024). Funded privately (€81.5M debt raise, Oct 2025), chairman Joan Miquel Torras, CEO Jordi Torras (twice a Dakar Rally racer).

Sources

Victim sitezanini.com

Source

Indexed 5 days 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 838 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 7, 2026Zanini listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 838 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Zanini is reported in Brazil, a country with 209 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Zanini 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, CERT.br (Brazil), 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.