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ROYAL M HOTEL BY GEWAN FUJAIRAH LLC

Claimed by Lamashtu · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 4, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lamashtu
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Arab Emirates
Sector
Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site
May 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Royal M Hotel Fujairah by Gewan is an upscale 5-star hotel located in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. It operates under the Royal M Hotels brand (royalmhotels.com) and is managed by Gewan LLC. The property caters to luxury travelers in the emirate of Fujairah on the UAE's east coast.

Industry
Luxury Hospitality & Hotels
Address
Fujairah, United Arab Emirates

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor against a hospitality target, which typically holds guest PII, passport/ID copies, payment card data, and reservation records at scale — constituting significant sensitive data exposure even without explicit enumeration in the post.

The Lamashtu ransomware group claims to have compromised Royal M Hotel Fujairah by Gewan and has published data ('data_published' status). The specific nature of exfiltrated data and any encryption of systems is not detailed in the available post excerpt.

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What the group claims

Royal M Hotel Fujairah by Gewan is an upscale 5-star hotel located in the heart of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About lamashtu

Based on the limited available information, Lamashtu is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in April 2026, appearing to be financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations. Lamashtu's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by established security researchers, though their targeting patterns suggest they employ standard ransomware deployment techniques across multiple industry verticals. The group has conducted at least 8 confirmed attacks, demonstrating a geographically diverse targeting approach with victims identified in France, Italy, the United States, Singapore, and Malaysia, while focusing primarily on business services, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, hospitality and tourism, and energy sectors. Given the group's recent first observation in April 2026 and limited public threat intelligence reporting from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major security firms, Lamashtu appears to represent a newly active threat actor whose current operational status and long-term capabilities require further monitoring and analysis. The group has been linked to 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 13, 2026; most recent post June 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 4, 2026ROYAL M HOTEL BY GEWAN FUJAIRAH LLC listed by lamashtuon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by lamashtu

lamashtu has been linked to 34 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 Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 452 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ROYAL M HOTEL BY GEWAN FUJAIRAH LLC is reported in United Arab Emirates, a country with 40 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lamashtu means ROYAL M HOTEL BY GEWAN FUJAIRAH LLC 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, aeCERT (United Arab Emirates), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on lamashtu'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.