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Babgi Group

listed as Salem Saleh Babgi · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 31, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
Saudi Arabia
Listed on leak site
Jul 31, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Babgi Group is a Saudi Arabian conglomerate founded in 1980 by Sheikh Salem Saleh Babgi. With over 1,900 employees and revenues exceeding $7.4 billion, the group operates across multiple sectors including automotive (exclusive dealer for Toyota, Lexus, and MG), trading, contracting, hospitality, manufacturing, and retail.

Industry
Automotive Dealership, Trading & Contracting (Conglomerate)
Employees
1900
Founded
1980

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group, indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, no specific data types, scale, or operational impact are detailed in the truncated post. The company's scale and multi-sector operations suggest potential sensitivity, but without detailed inventory or proof count, severity cannot be classified as high.

The ransomware group 'thegentlemen' has published data allegedly exfiltrated from Babgi Group. No specific encryption claim or ransom demand is stated in the available post excerpt.

medium

What the group claims

babgi.com.sa zoominfo.com/c/salem-saleh-babgi-co-ltd/372739058 Babgi Group, founded in 1978 by Sheikh Salem Saleh Babgi, is a major Saudi Arabian conglomerate with over 1,900 employees and revenues exceeding $7.4 billion. The group operates primarily in the automotive sector (as an exclusive dealer for brands like Toyota, Lexus, and MG), trading, and contracting. Guided by a vision of sustainable economic growth, it focuses on delivering high-quality standards, advanced management practices, and community-driven services across the Kingdom

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours 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 696 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post July 31, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 31, 2026Salem Saleh Babgi listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 696 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full thegentlemen dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Salem Saleh Babgi is reported in Saudi Arabia, a country with 16 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Salem Saleh Babgi 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.