Was Abans Group hit by ransomware?

Abans Group was listed by the blacknevas ransomware operation (Sri Lanka), 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 Abans Group breach?

blacknevas published data attributed to Abans Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Abans Group

Claimed by Blacknevas · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 29, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacknevas
Status: Data leaked
Country: Sri Lanka
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Jun 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Abans Group is a diversified multinational conglomerate founded by Abhishek Bansal, operating across financial services, gold refining, jewelry, commodities trading, agricultural trading, pharmaceuticals distribution, software development, and real estate. With over 300 employees, the group maintains operations across India, UK, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mauritius, and Singapore, including an NBFC (Non-Banking Financial Company) registered with India's RBI.

Industry: Financial Services, Gold Refining, Commodities Trading, Real Estate Development
Employees: 300
Founded: 2009

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive financial services data including NBFC loan books, client trading records, and institutional financial data from a regulated financial entity with significant assets (₹35,263 lakhs loan book noted) and international operations.

BlackNevas claims to have accessed and exfiltrated data from Abans Group. The group has published the stolen data, indicating confirmed data exfiltration rather than encryption-only attack.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial records
NBFC loan portfolio data
Trading and brokerage client information
Portfolio management records
Treasury and capital management documents
Business operational data

What the group claims

The Abans Group is a globally diversified organization engaged in Investment Management, Trading, Broking, Gold Refining, Non-Banking Financial Services, Agricultural Trading, Software Development, and Real Estate Development.We are globally diversified organisation engaged in Financial Services, Gold Refining, Jewellery, Commodities Trading, Agricultural Trading and Warehousing, Pharmaceuticals Distribution, Software Development and Real Estate. The group is founded by young entrepreneur - Mr. Abhishek Bansal who leads a global team of over 300 people operating growing businesses from multiple locations including India, United Kingdom, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong kong, Mauritius and Singapore.Our Company represents the financial services arm of the Abans Group. We operate a diversified global financial services business, headquartered in India, providing NBFC services, multi-asset global institutional trading in equities,Since the inception of our Company in 2009-10, we have grown from being a commodities trading company into a diversified multi-asset and multi-national financial services company having varied financial services businesses which are mainly organised under:NBFC Business: We are a Non Banking Financial Company registered with RBI and having a Total Loan Book of ₹ 35,263 lakhs as on March 31, 2021.Our NBFC business is primarily focused on lending to private traders and other small and medium businesses involved in the commodities trading market.Agency Business: We are SEBI registered Stock and Commodity Exchange Brokers with memberships across all the major stock exchanges in India, including BSE, NSE, MSEI, MCX, NCDEX, ICEX and IIEL and further we have memberships in various international exchanges like DGCX (Dubai), LME (London), INE (Shanghai) and DCE (China). We are also a SEBI Registered Portfolio Management company as well as a SEBI Registered Category-I FPI and Category-III AIF. We offer various client-based institutional trading services, wealth management and private client brokerage services, mainly in equity, commodities and foreign exchange.Capital and other Business: Our Capital Business includes our internal treasury operations which manage our excess capital funds. We do so by investing our capital in what we believe to be low / medium risk strategies, maintaining positions in physical as well as exchange traded commodities and other instruments which we can liquidate economically within a specified days based on our strategy of short term or long term holding. We structure our treasury investments to maintain sufficient liquidity in our portfolio to support the capital needs of our other businesses. Further we provide Warehousing Services to commodity market participants.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 days 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 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2025; most recent post June 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: black nevas.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 29, 2026Abans Group listed by blacknevason the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 828 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Abans Group is reported in Sri Lanka, a country with 3 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacknevas means Abans Group 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 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.