Was Nile Projects Trading hit by ransomware?

Nile Projects Trading was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Egypt), 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 Nile Projects Trading breach?

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

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Nile Projects Trading

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: Egypt
Listed on leak site: Sep 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nile Projects & Trading is a private Egyptian holding company founded in 1972, headquartered in Giza/Cairo with 3,000+ employees and 750,000+ customers across 6 offices in Egypt and Jordan. It is Egypt's exclusive Bridgestone tire importer operating 50+ Fit & Fix service centers and mobile tire vans, and the country's primary luxury fashion franchisor representing Burberry, Ferragamo, BOSS, Calvin Klein, and others, plus mass-market and F&B brands.

Industry: Automotive Distribution & Luxury Retail (multi-brand franchisor)
Address: Giza/Cairo, Egypt
Employees: 3000+
Founded: 1972

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or technical details of breach are mentioned. No data inventory or operational impact is described. Post is a listing/announcement only.

The leak post does not explicitly state what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or compromised. The post announces the company's addition to the threat group's victim list but provides no details on the nature or scope of the alleged breach.

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What the group claims

nileprojects.com zoominfo.com/c/nile-projects--trading-co/357370722 Nile Projects & Trading is a private Egyptian holding founded in 1972 by Ossama El-Naggar, HQ'd in Giza/Cairo with 3,000+ employees, 750,000+ customers and 6 offices across Egypt and Jordan. It's Egypt's exclusive Bridgestone importer (since 1990) running 50+ Fit & Fix service centers plus unique mobile tire vans — and the country's luxury fashion franchise king: Burberry, Ferragamo, BOSS, Calvin Klein, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sandro, Maje (launched Jordan), Kenzo, plus Matalan for mass market and Amorino/Eichholtz/TIMEVALLÉE in F&B, furniture and watches. Over 50+ years it has introduced 80+ international brands to Egypt and the Middle East, pioneering retail after the 2004 import opening. Key strengths: fully self-financed (no external debt), its own ERP software, owns the malls it anchors (Katameya Downtown), and a 2bn+ EGP credit line — recently winning Bridgestone's global Toolbox award 2025.

Sources

Victim sitenileprojects.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, 2026Nile Projects Trading 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

Geographically, Nile Projects Trading is reported in Egypt, a country with 29 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Nile Projects Trading 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 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.