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Gulf Energy Maritime

Claimed by Raworld · listed 2 years ago

20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 23, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Raworld
Status
Data leaked
Country
UAE
Sector
Energy
Listed on leak site
Nov 23, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gulf Energy Maritime (GEM) is an independent product and chemical tanker operator based in Dubai, UAE, specializing in maritime transportation of crude oil, petroleum products, and chemicals. The company operates a fleet of 12 vessels including LR1 and MR-class tankers, serving major oil companies, refiners, and traders globally with a focus on high safety and quality standards.

Industry
Maritime Shipping & Energy Transportation
Address
Third Floor, Office 5EA 301, Dubai Airport Freezone, P.O. Box 855, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data publication by threat actor against operational maritime/energy company with potential access to business systems; however, no specific sensitive data categories are detailed in the disclosure, and no proof files are referenced in the truncated post.

The raworld group claims to have compromised Gulf Energy Maritime's systems. The post indicates data has been published, though specific details about exfiltration versus encryption, or the nature of exposed data, are not explicitly stated in the available disclosure.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Gulf Energy Maritime is a prominent maritime shipping company based in the United Arab Emirates. It specializes in the transportation of crude oil, petroleum products, and chemicals. The company operates a modern fleet of tankers, ensuring safe and efficient delivery while adhering to high environmental and safety standards. It plays a critical role in the global energy supply chain.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About raworld

Raworld is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in May 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available information, though their targeting patterns suggest they may operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, though their victim profile spanning multiple sectors including business services, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare suggests they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than highly specialized initial access vectors. With 112 documented victims across major economies including Germany, the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Italy, Raworld has demonstrated significant operational capability despite their recent emergence, though specific details about notable high-profile attacks or law enforcement disruption efforts have not been widely reported by major threat intelligence organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active, though the limited public intelligence available makes definitive assessment of their operational status challenging. The group has been linked to 112 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 6, 2023; most recent post December 28, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 23, 2024Gulf Energy Maritime listed by raworldon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by raworld

raworld has been linked to 112 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full raworld dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gulf Energy Maritime is reported in UAE, a country with 81 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by raworld means Gulf Energy Maritime 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 raworld'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.