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Almoayed ICT

Claimed by Blackbyte · listed 4 years ago

46m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 1, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackbyte
Status
Data leaked
Country
Bahrain
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Oct 1, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Almoayed ICT is an Information Technology and Telecommunications solution provider headquartered in the Kingdom of Bahrain, established in 1982 by Mr. Nabeel Almoayed. The company provides IT and telecom solutions and services to clients across the Middle East and Africa through sales and support offices in the region. It holds ISO 9001:2015 certification and operates under the broader Almoayed Group.

Industry
IT & Telecommunications Solutions
Address
Kingdom of Bahrain
Founded
1982

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor (data_published status confirmed), indicating confirmed exfiltration from an IT/Telecom solutions provider operating across the Middle East and Africa; such a company is likely to hold sensitive business, client, and potentially infrastructure-related data. However, no regulated personal data categories or specific data inventory were disclosed, preventing a critical rating.

BlackByte claims to have attacked Almoayed ICT and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data, though the specific volume or categories of exfiltrated data were not detailed in the leak post.

high

What the group claims

Almoayed ICT is an Information Technology (IT) and Telecommunications (Telecom) solution provider, headquartered in the Kingdom of Bahrain. We are committed towards providing the highest quality of services and solutions to our clients and have Sales & Support offices throughout the Middle East and Africa. We are strengthening our existing core competencies as well as investing in the development of new capabilities to meet new requirements. We are investing heavily in our employees, internal processes and business systems so that we can be better prepared to serve our customers needs.Almoayed Group was established in 1982 by Mr. Nabeel Almoayed with the following vision in mind:To become a truly global IT and Telecommunications Solutions Provider - committed to best value services and solutions. This vision has come to be the sole objective of the Group, with associate of the Group working towards the goal to provide better products, efficient solutions flawless support to their respective customers

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blackbyte

BlackByte is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that emerged in October 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group is suspected to operate from Russia or former Soviet states based on their use of Russian-language forums and avoidance of targeting organizations in Commonwealth of Independent States countries, though they maintain no confirmed links to other established ransomware families. BlackByte operators typically gain initial access through vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of remote desktop protocol (RDP) services, employing tools such as Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and data exfiltration before deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses AES-256 encryption with RSA-2048 key protection. The group has demonstrated particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors, with the FBI and CISA issuing joint advisories in February 2022 highlighting attacks against organizations in government, healthcare, manufacturing, and education sectors, including notable incidents affecting San Francisco's transportation authority and multiple healthcare systems across the United States. BlackByte remains active as of 2024, continuing to evolve their tactics and maintain their leak site for publishing stolen data from victims who refuse to pay ransoms. The group has been linked to 147 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 4, 2021; most recent post July 30, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 1, 2022Almoayed ICT listed by Blackbyteon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blackbyte

Blackbyte has been linked to 147 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Almoayed ICT is reported in Bahrain, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blackbyte means Almoayed ICT 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 Blackbyte'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.