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 424 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 6, 2026The Modern Flour Mill listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Modern Flour Mill is reported in Jordan.

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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The Modern Flour Mill

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 15 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Jordan
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Modern Flour Mills & Macaroni Factories Co. Ltd. (MFM) is a diversified cereal processor headquartered in Amman, Jordan, operating since 1949. The company runs four production plants covering wheat flour milling, pasta, snack foods, and bakery ingredients, and exports to more than 12 countries. Its brands include Al-Ghazal, Suprema, Barakeh, MFM, and Samar, and it holds the distinction of having opened the first pasta factory in the Middle East in 1967.

Industry: Cereal & Grain Processing (Flour Milling, Pasta & Snack Food Manufacturing)
Address: Amman, Jordan
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 1949

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration of internal company data from a regional food production company with 201-500 employees and international export operations. While no regulated personal data at scale is explicitly confirmed, the published status and business sensitivity of operational and corporate data warrants a high severity rating.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised MFM and has published data (disclosed status: data_published). No ransom amount or explicit data size was stated, but the post references company operational and corporate information sourced from the victim's systems.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate/business records
Operational plant data
Product and brand information
Potentially employee records
Potentially export/trade partner data

What the group claims

modernflourmills.com zoominfo.com/c/the-modern-flour-mills-and-macaroni-factories-co/425333381 Modern Flour Mills & Macaroni Factories Co. (MFM) is a diversified cereal processor founded in 1949 and headquartered in Amman, Jordan, with a workforce of 201–500 employees. The company operates four main production plants — wheat flour milling, pasta, snack foods, and bakery ingredients — and notably opened the first pasta factory in the entire Middle East in 1967. Its products are sold under well-known regional brands: Al-Ghazal (flour & pasta), Suprema/Barakeh (pasta), MFM (specialty flour & baking mixes), and Samar (snacks), with co-packing and private labeling available for export markets

Sources

Victim sitemodernflourmills.com

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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