Disclosure context

About bqtlock

Based on available intelligence, bqtlock is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in July 2025, with documented attacks against at least five victims and appears to be financially motivated. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests possible operation from regions outside their primary victim countries. Attack methodologies and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though the group appears to focus on opportunistic targeting across diverse sectors including technology, public sector, and educational institutions. The ransomware primarily targets organizations in the United States and United Arab Emirates, suggesting either specific regional interests or exploitation of common vulnerabilities in these markets. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting from authoritative sources like CISA, FBI, or established security researchers, detailed information about their specific tools, tactics, and procedures remains undocumented in open-source intelligence. The group appears to remain active as of their recent identification in mid-2025, though their operational scale and long-term persistence remain to be determined. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 31, 2025; most recent post October 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 11, 2025Adore UAE listed by bqtlockon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Adore UAE is reported in UAE, a country with 41 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Adore UAE

Claimed by bqtlock · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 11, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: bqtlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: UAE
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Oct 11, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Adore UAE operates under the domain adoreuae.com and appears to be a retail or e-commerce business based in the United Arab Emirates. No public site content was available to confirm the specific product category or operational scale. The name suggests a consumer-facing brand operating in the UAE market.

Industry: Retail / E-commerce (UAE)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published rather than merely listed, suggesting confirmed exfiltration and release; however, no details on data type, volume, or sensitivity are provided, preventing a higher severity classification.

The group bqtlock has listed Adore UAE as a victim with a 'data_published' status, indicating data has been released. The leak post contains only the company domain with no further detail on encryption, exfiltration volume, or data types disclosed.

medium

What the group claims

adoreuae.com www.adoreuae.com

Sources

Victim siteadoreuae.com
Leak posthttp://yywhylvqeqynzik6ibocb53o2nat7lmzn5ynjpar3stndzcgmy6dkgid.onion

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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