Disclosure context

About tengu

Tengu is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a geographically diverse targeting approach across 49 documented victims. The group has primarily focused their operations on Morocco, the United States, India, Italy, and Indonesia, suggesting either opportunistic targeting or specific interest in these regions' economic sectors. Their victim profile spans multiple industries including technology, manufacturing, public sector, and agriculture and food production, indicating a broad targeting strategy rather than sector-specific focus. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their origin, affiliation status, technical methodology, encryption techniques, and operational structure remain largely undocumented by major cybersecurity agencies and research organizations. No notable high-profile campaigns or law enforcement actions have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or prominent security researchers at this time. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established sources have yet to be published due to their nascent presence in the ransomware landscape. The group has been linked to 57 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 23, 2025; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 28, 2026Tahkout Group listed by tenguon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Tahkout Group is reported in DZ.

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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Tahkout Group

Claimed by tengu · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 28, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: tengu
Status: Data leaked
Country: DZ
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jan 28, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Tahkout Group is an Algerian manufacturing and distribution conglomerate. The group is widely known in Algeria for its involvement in beverage production and distribution, including franchised soft drink bottling operations. It operates across multiple industrial sectors within Algeria.

Industry: Beverage Manufacturing & Distribution

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Status is 'data_published', indicating data has been released, but the leak post provides no specific details about the nature, volume, or sensitivity of the data exfiltrated from Tahkout Group specifically. No proof count or data inventory is enumerable from the available post.

The Tengu ransomware group has published data related to Tahkout Group, indicating a completed data disclosure. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration volume, or data categories are provided in the leak post for this specific victim.

medium

What the group claims

Tahkout Group is a large Algerian group of companies (sometimes described as a business alliance) founded and run by Mahieddine Tahkout, a well-known Algerian businessman in the automotive, transport, real estate and industrial sectors.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Shisa Ransomware Blog Shisa RANSOMWARE DATA LEAKS BLOG HOME AFFILIATE PROGRAM CONTACT crown-security.com.tw PUBLISHED Crown Security is a technology company specializing in information security and digital systems, offering advanced solutions to protect corporate networks and data from breaches and cyberattacks The company focuses on providing security consulting and implementing integrated protection systems tailored to each organization's needs 27,470 👁 Sileno Companies Inc PUBLISHED Sileno Companies Inc. A US company primarily operating in the hospitality and real estate sectors, its activities include: Hotel operation Property management Management of hotels' restaurants and bars Hospitality project development 22.9TB was encrypted in 14 hours on 3/5/2026 More than 67.07 GB was extracted 29,787 👁 Eos Technology srl PUBLISHED Eos Technology srl is a company with 15 years of experience in the ICT sector, initially starting as an assembly and repair laboratory for PCs and peripherals. Over time, it has developed expertise that has allowed it to become a partner of various international brands. The company offers a range of services including IT assistance, multimedia services, h…

Sources

Leak posthttp://longcc4fqrfcqt5lzceutylaxir6h66fp6df3oin6mvwvz6pfdbxc6qd.onion/blog/bea2786db52dfebfa78db93284fb6ce438ffccbf69d182abed0147505046c5bf/

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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