Was MTCO (Mahmoud Altaheni & Partners Trading Co) hit by ransomware?

MTCO (Mahmoud Altaheni & Partners Trading Co) was listed by the Gammax ransomware operation (Saudi Arabia), 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 Gammax ransomware group?

Gammax 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 MTCO (Mahmoud Altaheni & Partners Trading Co) breach?

Gammax published data attributed to MTCO (Mahmoud Altaheni & Partners Trading Co). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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MTCO (Mahmoud Altaheni & Partners Trading Company)

listed as MTCO (Mahmoud Altaheni & Partners Trading Co) · Claimed by Gammax · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 1, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Gammax
Status: Data leaked
Country: Saudi Arabia
Listed on leak site: Aug 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

MTCO is a Saudi Arabian distributor and trader of electromechanical equipment, established in 2007. Operating across the KSA and GCC region for over 15 years, the company supplies UPS systems, emergency lighting, cables, earthing/lightning protection, thermal management, raised flooring, batteries, and leak detection systems from global manufacturers. They hold partnerships with major brands including Riello, B3 International, DEHN, Lindner Group, Amaron Quanta, and TTK.

Industry: Electromechanical Equipment Distribution & Trading
Address: Sari Road, Sari Office Building, Room 501, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Founded: 2007

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor (disclosed status confirmed), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, without specifics on data sensitivity (PII at scale, financial records, etc.) or operational disruption claims, and given the company is a B2B equipment distributor rather than a custodian of highly regulated sensitive data, the incident is assessed as medium severity.

Gammax claims to have conducted an attack on MTCO resulting in data exfiltration. The group has published data from the victim, but the specific nature of compromised data categories and operational impact are not detailed in the truncated leak post provided.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Company operations data
Potentially client/customer information

What the group claims

MTCO (Mahmoud Altaheni & Partners Trading Company) operates in Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the GCC with 15+ years’ industry experience, established in ...

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Gammax

Gammax is a ransomware group first observed in July 2026 with an apparently financial motivation, though limited public documentation exists given its nascent operational history and very low victim count. With only two known victims on record, the group remains largely uncharacterized by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or comparable research bodies, and no definitive attribution regarding country of origin, affiliation with established threat actors, or ransomware-as-a-service infrastructure has been publicly established at this time. Based on available victimology data, Gammax has demonstrated a targeting preference for organizations in Canada and Colombia, with activity concentrated in the Energy and Utilities and Retail and E-Commerce sectors, suggesting either opportunistic targeting of these verticals or a deliberate focus on industries where operational disruption may increase pressure to pay. No specific initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, or extortion tactics have been publicly attributed to this group by authoritative sources, and no notable high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions have been publicly documented against them. Given its July 2026 emergence and minimal victim footprint, Gammax should be considered an emerging and closely monitored threat, though its current operational status, true capabilities, and trajectory remain insufficiently documented to support more definitive analytical conclusions. The group has been linked to 4 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 30, 2026; most recent post August 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 1, 2026MTCO (Mahmoud Altaheni & Partners Trading Co) listed by Gammaxon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Gammax

Gammax has been linked to 4 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, MTCO (Mahmoud Altaheni & Partners Trading Co) is reported in Saudi Arabia, a country with 16 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Gammax means MTCO (Mahmoud Altaheni & Partners Trading Co) 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 Gammax'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.