Was T. Choithram And Sons, LLC hit by ransomware?

T. Choithram And Sons, LLC was listed by the blacknevas ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the blacknevas ransomware group?

blacknevas is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the T. Choithram And Sons, LLC breach?

blacknevas published data attributed to T. Choithram And Sons, LLC (~1.2 TB), around 145146 files records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Choithrams (T. Choithram & Sons)

listed as T. Choithram And Sons, LLC · Claimed by Blacknevas · listed 11 months ago

1.2 TB

Data size

145146 files records

10m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 7, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacknevas
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 7, 2025
Data size: 1.2 TB
Records: 145146 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Choithrams (T. Choithram & Sons) is a prominent grocery retail chain and distributor operating across the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman, established in 1974. The company offers over 500 proprietary products including tea, spices, nuts, and grains, all HACCP-certified for food safety. It maintains an extensive logistics and distribution network serving a majority of food outlets in the region and collaborates with hundreds of major FMCG brands.

Industry: Grocery Retail & FMCG Distribution
Founded: 1974

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of regulated PII at scale (passports for nearly all employees), sensitive corporate database contents (SQL/SAP), and additionally threatens coercion of an employee and sale of persistent network access — representing a severe, multi-dimensional compromise affecting both personal and operational data.

The BlackNevas group claims to have exfiltrated a large volume of SQL and SAP data, scanned identity documents (passports) for nearly all employees, and personal documents of key IT department staff; they also claim to offer ongoing access to the corporate network and coercive cooperation from an IT employee.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

SQL database dumps
SAP data exports
Employee passport scans
IT department employee personal documents
Corporate network access credentials

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

Choithrams is a prominent grocery retail chain and distributor in the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman, established in 1974. The company offers a wide range of over 500 quality products, including tea, spices, nuts, and grains, all meeting HACCP certification for food safety. Known for its vast logistics and distribution network, Choithrams collaborates with hundreds of major FMCG brands, servicing a majority of food outlets in the region. Their commitment to trust, innovation, and sustainability has positioned them as a partner of choice in the grocery sector.As a bonus, we offer scanned documents of all key employees of the company's IT department:https://gofile.io/d/QwY56BA large volume of SQL and SAP data is also available. Passports for nearly all employees are available. We will also provide access to the corporate network and assign an IT department employee who will be forced to cooperate due to the existence of highly compromising information against them.write to us for information:[email protected]

The leak post

captured from the group's site

[ Speed Group (speedgroupe.com / speedfrance.fr) is a global leader in the manufacture of synthetic monofilament lines. The company was founded in France over 40 years ago. Today, Speed Group operates four manufacturing plants located in France, the USA, Chile, and South Africa. It specializes in the extrusion of high-quality monofilaments—particularly trimmer lines—and ranks among the world's leading players in this sector. The company also produces technical monofilaments for other industries. Since 2004, it has been part of the Italian Emak Group (Tecomec). Speed Group is renowned for its high product quality, rigorous production controls, and excellent service.Cyber Attack on Speed Group (speedgroupe.com)World leader in monofilament lines manufacturing — Speed Group — has been hit by a cyber attack. Hackers breached the company’s systems and stole confidential data.More than 1 terabytes of information were exfiltrated, including technical documentation, customer databases and production data from factories in France, USA, Chile, and South Africa.The company has not issued an official statement yet. #SpeedGroup #CyberAttack #DataBreach ](http://ctyfftrjgtwdjzlgqh4avbd35sqr…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for T. Choithram And Sons, LLC

Sources

Source

Indexed 11 months ago

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Disclosure context

About blacknevas

Blacknevas is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in August 2025, appearing to be primarily financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their diverse geographic targeting suggests either a distributed operation or broad opportunistic approach. Based on available victim data, Blacknevas has compromised at least 23 organizations across multiple countries, with the United States, Spain, India, Japan, and Thailand being the most frequently targeted nations, while their sector focus spans technology, manufacturing, energy, and consumer services industries, suggesting they employ opportunistic rather than sector-specific targeting methodologies. The group's attack vectors, specific tools, and whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or maintain independent operations have not been publicly documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence in August 2025, there is insufficient public reporting from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers to detail notable campaigns or significant attacks beyond the confirmed victim count. Given the recency of their first observed activity, Blacknevas appears to remain active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from authoritative sources have yet to be published. The group has been linked to 47 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2025; most recent post August 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: black nevas.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 7, 2025T. Choithram And Sons, LLC listed by blacknevason the group's public leak site

Data size: 1.2 TB
Records: 145146 files

Other recent disclosures by blacknevas

blacknevas has been linked to 47 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 829 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, T. Choithram And Sons, LLC is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacknevas means T. Choithram And Sons, LLC 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on blacknevas'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.