Was Yateem Group hit by ransomware?

Yateem Group was listed by the blacknevas ransomware operation (Bahrain), 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 blacknevas ransomware group?

blacknevas 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 Yateem Group breach?

blacknevas published data attributed to Yateem Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Yateem Group

Claimed by Blacknevas · listed 9 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 29, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacknevas
Status: Data leaked
Country: Bahrain
Listed on leak site: Oct 29, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Yateem Group is a Dubai-headquartered retail conglomerate founded in 1910, best known for its optical chain Yateem Opticians and nearly 100 optical outlets across the GCC region. The group operates multiple eyewear brands including Ateliee Optics and Sun Eye, and has diversified into premium leather boutiques and real estate management. It serves customers across the Gulf Cooperative Council countries and has insurance partnerships for vision care.

Industry: Optical Retail & Vision Care
Address: 19B St, Al Quoz Industrial Area 4, Dubai, UAE
Founded: 1910

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Mass exfiltration of PII at extreme scale (9M+ customer records with contact details) combined with sensitive employee data including passports and contracts constitutes a critical regulated/sensitive data breach; data is reportedly ready for publication or sale.

The blacknevas group claims to have exfiltrated over 500 GB and 100,000+ files from Yateem Group, including a customer database with more than 9,000,000 records (phone numbers and emails), as well as internal employee data comprising passports, employment contracts, rights, and insurance documents; the group states negotiations have broken down and the data is being prepared for publication or sale.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer database (9,000,000+ records with phones and emails)
Employee personal information
Employee passports
Employment contracts
Employee rights documentation
Insurance documents
Internal company files

What the group claims

500+ gigabytes and over 100,000+ files availableThe Yateem Group owns nearly 100 optical outlets in addition to many other brands and facilities. At its heart, the group retains the original family values set forth by the founders.A complete customer database with all contacts has been downloaded, including phones and emails of more than 9000000+ records, as well as all internal information on YateemGroup employees, passports, rights, work contracts and insurance.The IT department is aware of the leak, but has broken off negotiations, and customer and employee data is being prepared for publication.(ready to sell all databases without publishing)access was obtained thanks to the IT departments of these companies:Trojan Construction & Holding Group www.trojan.aeT. Choithram And Sons, LLC www.choithrams.com

Sources

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About blacknevas

Blacknevas is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in August 2025, appearing to be primarily financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their diverse geographic targeting suggests either a distributed operation or broad opportunistic approach. Based on available victim data, Blacknevas has compromised at least 23 organizations across multiple countries, with the United States, Spain, India, Japan, and Thailand being the most frequently targeted nations, while their sector focus spans technology, manufacturing, energy, and consumer services industries, suggesting they employ opportunistic rather than sector-specific targeting methodologies. The group's attack vectors, specific tools, and whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or maintain independent operations have not been publicly documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence in August 2025, there is insufficient public reporting from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers to detail notable campaigns or significant attacks beyond the confirmed victim count. Given the recency of their first observed activity, Blacknevas appears to remain active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from authoritative sources have yet to be published. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2025; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: black nevas.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 29, 2025Yateem Group listed by blacknevason the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by blacknevas

blacknevas has been linked to 36 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Yateem Group is reported in Bahrain, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacknevas means Yateem 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 blacknevas'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.