Was Sawafi hit by ransomware?

Sawafi was listed by the thegentlemen 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 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 Sawafi breach?

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

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Sawafi

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 21, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Saudi Arabia
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: Feb 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sawafi is a Saudi Arabian oilfield services company specialising in drilling, completions, and production solutions, with operations spanning 40 countries and over 10,035 wells worldwide. The company holds 82 patents and has 40 years of experience in oil and gas, maintaining an Iktva localisation score of 50%. Sawafi has made strategic acquisitions and investments including Newsco International Energy Services and UK-based Vulcan, and operates joint ventures such as Sawafi Borets focused on ESP (electric submersible pump) technologies.

Industry: Oil & Gas Drilling, Completions & Production Services
Address: King Salman Energy Park (SPARK), Saudi Arabia

Attack summary

Severity: high — Sawafi is a significant Saudi Arabian oilfield services provider operating in the energy sector across 40 countries with ties to Aramco; the disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating data was released. Given the critical infrastructure/energy sector context and confirmed publication of data, severity is high, though the absence of visible proof or a quantified data inventory prevents a critical classification.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have attacked Sawafi and lists the disclosure status as 'data_published'; however, the leak post itself is obscured by a bot-verification page and provides no specific detail on the nature of the attack, data exfiltrated, or volume of data involved.

high

What the group claims

sawafi.com zoominfo.com/c/sawafi-co/402330352 Sawafi is a Saudi Arabian company specializing in drilling, completions, and production services tailored to enhance oil and gas performance. With a commitment to innovation and sustainability, the company offers a variety of advanced technologies, including eco-friendly electric submersible pumps (ESP) and efficient drilling products. Targeting clients in the oil and gas sector, Sawafi is dedicated to supporting local value creation and self-sufficiency in line with national goals. The company also invests in strategic partnerships and acquisitions to bolster its service capabilities and market presence

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitesawafi.com
Leak posthttp://tezwsse5czllksjb7cwp65rvnk4oobmzti2znn42i43bjdfd2prqqkad.onion

Source

Indexed 4 months 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 483 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 21, 2026Sawafi listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 483 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 Energy sector, which has 375 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sawafi is reported in Saudi Arabia, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Sawafi 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.