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, 2026Media Consulting listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Media Consulting is reported in IT, a country with 195 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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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Media Consulting

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: IT
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Media Consulting (operating as part of the Mediatip group) is an Italian web agency based in Cesena, Italy. The company designs and develops custom responsive websites and offers a full range of digital services including social media marketing, Google Ads, email marketing, web analytics, graphic design, and web marketing training. It also assists businesses in accessing public funding grants.

Industry: Web Agency & Digital Marketing Services
Address: Cesena, Italy

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release, but no details on data volume, sensitivity, or categories are provided; the victim is a small web agency with no indication of regulated or critical data.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have compromised Media Consulting and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though no specific details about encryption, exfiltration volume, or data categories are stated in the post.

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What the group claims

mconweb.it zoominfo.com/c/media-consulting-srl/372633129 Media Consulting is an Italian web agency based in Cesena that designs and develops custom responsive websites. They offer a full range of digital services including Social Media Marketing, Web Marketing (Google Ads, Email Marketing, Analytics), and graphic design. The agency also provides web marketing training for teams and assists businesses in accessing public funding grants

Sources

Victim sitemconweb.it

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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