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Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

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Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 31, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Aug 31, 2026

What the group claims

saudconsult.com zoominfo.com/c/saudi-consulting-services---saud-consult/348812396 SaudConsult — Saudi Arabia's oldest and largest privately owned engineering consultancy, founded in 1965 by Eng. Dr. Tarek M. A. Al Shawaf. The first Saudi engineering consulting firm — 100% Saudi privately owned, headquartered in Riyadh with branches in Jeddah, Khobar, Medina, Abha, plus offices in Bahrain and Egypt. Employs 2,800+ professionals (engineers, architects, designers); completed 3,500+ projects over six decades. Full-cycle services: feasibility studies, design, project management, construction supervision, procurement, commissioning, O&M. Sectors: infrastructure, oil & gas (clients include Saudi Aramco, SABIC, SADARA, MAADEN), power, hospitals, airports, defense & aviation, master planning. Actively participates in Saudi Vision 2030; in 2026 formed a partnership with Canada's Dokainish & Company for full EPCM capability.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours 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 809 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post August 31, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 31, 2026Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

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, Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT is reported in Saudi Arabia, a country with 16 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Saudi Consulting Services SAUD CONSULT 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.