Was Josee Bendaaa-Guerrero Asociados hit by ransomware?

Josee Bendaaa-Guerrero Asociados was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Belize), 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 Josee Bendaaa-Guerrero Asociados breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Josee Bendaaa-Guerrero Asociados. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Guy José Bendaña-Guerrero & Asociados

listed as Josee Bendaaa-Guerrero Asociados · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 13 days ago

12d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 30, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Belize
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Guy José Bendaña-Guerrero & Asociados is Nicaragua's leading intellectual-property boutique with roots tracing to 1907. The firm specializes in trademarks, patents, industrial designs, copyright, anti-counterfeiting, corporate law, regulatory matters, and litigation, serving global pharmaceutical, technology, fashion, and consumer-goods clients from its Managua office.

Industry: Intellectual Property Law & Corporate Law
Address: Rotonda El Güegüense 1 Cuadra al Este y 120 Metros al Norte Bo. Bolonia, Managua, Nicaragua
Employees: 5-10
Founded: 1907

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post is a listing/announcement only with no proof files, screenshots, or data samples advertised; no operational impact stated; no data inventory disclosed.

The leak post announces the firm as a victim of thegentlemen group but provides no details of the claimed attack method (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or specific data categories at stake.

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What the group claims

guybendana.com Guy José Bendaña-Guerrero & Asociados (roots to 1907, Managua, Nicaragua) is the leading intellectual-property boutique in Nicaragua, specializing in trademarks, patents, industrial designs, copyright, plant varieties and anti-counterfeiting, plus corporate law, regulatory (sanitary registrations) and litigation. It traces its lineage over 100 years through three legal dynasties — founders Henry Caldera & Henry Caldera-Pallais (who secured Nicaragua's first Trademark Law in 1907 and co-founded ASIPI in 1964), then the Caldera generation, and since 1985 Dr. Guy José Bendaña-Guerrero (a former judge, law professor, author and ex-president of ANIPI) alongside his wife Blanca Aragón de Bendaña and their son Julián. Recognized as Nicaragua's top IP firm by Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and World Trademark Review 1000, it serves global pharmaceutical, technology, fashion and consumer-goods clients from its Bolonia district office in Managua. With 5–10 lawyers

Sources

Victim siteguybendana.com

Source

Indexed 13 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 966 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 30, 2026Josee Bendaaa-Guerrero Asociados listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 966 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 Professional Services sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Josee Bendaaa-Guerrero Asociados is reported in Belize.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Josee Bendaaa-Guerrero Asociados 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.