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 424 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 12, 2026Focus Design Partners listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Focus Design Partners is reported in QA, a country with 5 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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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Focus Design Partners

Claimed by thegentlemen · listed 8 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 12, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: QA
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Focus Design Partners (fdpme.com) is an international design consultancy firm with nearly 50 years of experience in architecture, engineering, design management, and project management. Headquartered in Doha, Qatar, with offices across 6+ countries, the firm has delivered high-profile projects including Qatar's Al Jannoub Stadium and the Lusail International Circuit. Their work spans sports and leisure, healthcare, commercial, residential, and infrastructure sectors.

Industry: Architecture, Engineering & Project Management Consultancy
Address: West Bay Area, Majlis Al Tawoon St., Al Asmakh Tower, 19th Floor, Doha, Qatar

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published ('data_published' status) by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration and public release. The victim is a multinational architecture and engineering firm whose data likely includes sensitive project designs, client contracts, and employee information across multiple countries, representing significant business and potentially regulated personal data exposure.

The group 'thegentlemen' claims to have published data belonging to Focus Design Partners, with the disclosure status recorded as 'data_published', indicating exfiltration and release of company data. No specific ransom demand or data volume was stated in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company project files
Internal business documents
Employee/HR records (potential)
Client and contract data (potential)
Engineering and design documentation (potential)

What the group claims

fdpme.com zoominfo.com/c/focus-design-partners/368873259 Focus Design Partners (fdpme.com) is a Grade-A international firm with nearly 50 years of excellence in architecture, engineering, and project management, delivering iconic projects like Qatar's Al Jannoub Stadium and Lusail Circuit. With offices across 6+ countries, they combine global expertise with strategic partnerships and a people-first culture certified by Great Place To Work®. Their integrated, sustainable design solutions span sports, healthcare, commercial, and infrastructure sectors — all delivered with full accountability and innovation

Sources

Victim sitefdpme.com

Source

Indexed 8 days ago

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