Was VASBE hit by ransomware?

VASBE was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Russia), 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 thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen 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 VASBE breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to VASBE. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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VASBE (Vigilantes Asociados al Servicio de Banca y Empresas)

listed as VASBE · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 11, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Russia
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

VASBE is a Spanish private security and surveillance company with over 30 years of experience, based in the Salamanca region. They provide physical guarding, 24/7 central alarm monitoring, advanced video surveillance, and customized security solutions for businesses, financial institutions, and private clients.

Industry: Private Security & Surveillance Services
Address: C/ Honfría, nº 30-32, Pol. ind. Montalvo II, Salamanca 37008, Spain

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by a known ransomware group (TheGentlemen) against a security company, which is operationally sensitive; however, no specific data categories, proof files, or exfiltration details are documented in the provided leak post.

TheGentlemen group claims to have accessed VASBE's systems and published data. The leak post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it detail what data categories were compromised.

medium

What the group claims

***.com zoominfo.com/c/vigilantes-asociados-al-servicio-de-banca-y-empresas-vasbe-sl/458305259 VASBE Vigilantes Asociados Al Servicio De Banca Y Empresas Vasbe is a well-established Spanish private security and surveillance company with over 30 years of industry experience. Based primarily in the Salamanca region, they provide comprehensive protection solutions including physical guarding, 24/7 central alarm monitoring, and advanced video surveillance. The company specializes in designing customized security plans to safeguard businesses, financial institutions, and valuable assets around the clock.

Sources

Victim sitevasbe.com

Source

Indexed 4 days 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 599 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 11, 2026VASBE listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 599 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, VASBE is reported in Russia, a country with 28 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means VASBE 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.