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, 2026Farmers Association of Iceland 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, Farmers Association of Iceland is reported in IS.

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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Farmers Association of Iceland

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: IS
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bændasamtök Íslands (Farmers Association of Iceland), operating at bondi.is, is Iceland's primary agricultural interest organisation representing approximately 3,000 people employed in farming and agriculture-related jobs across the country. Headquartered at Borgartún 25 in Reykjavík, the association acts as the official advocate for Icelandic farmers in public and policy forums. It publishes agricultural statistics, supports farm productivity, develops climate action roadmaps, and bridges the gap between food producers and society.

Industry: Agricultural Advocacy & Farming Sector Representation
Address: Borgartún 25, Reykjavík, Iceland
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published (data_published status), indicating exfiltration and public release of data from a national-level agricultural advocacy body. The organisation holds member PII, economic data, and policy documents covering approximately 3,000 farming sector workers, representing significant data exposure even absent explicit regulated-data confirmation.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked the Farmers Association of Iceland, with the disclosure status recorded as 'data_published', indicating that exfiltrated data has been released. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Member and employee records
Agricultural statistics and reports
Policy and advocacy documents
Farm productivity data
Climate action roadmap materials
Organisational and governance records

What the group claims

bondi.is Farmers Association of Iceland, is Iceland's primary agricultural interest organization representing approximately 3,000 people employed in farming and agriculture-related jobs across the country. The association acts as the official advocate for Icelandic farmers in public forums, protecting their interests in matters of policy, economics, and sustainability, while also developing climate action roadmaps for sustainable farm management. Headquartered in Borgartún 25 in Reykjavík, BÍ publishes agricultural statistics, supports farm productivity improvement, and bridges the gap between society and food producers

Sources

Victim sitebondi.is

Source

Indexed 15 days ago

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