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AWJ Holding

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 21, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Thegentlemen
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Arab Emirates
Listed on leak site
Aug 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AWJ Holding is a Saudi-based single-family office and investment firm headquartered in Riyadh, established in 2016. The company specializes in real estate development and property management with operations across retail, hospitality, and infrastructure sectors, managing approximately 32 billion Saudi Riyals in assets under management.

Industry
Real Estate Development, Property Management & Strategic Investment
Address
7586 King Fahd Branch Road – Ar Rahmaniyah, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Founded
2016

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status with no operational disruption claimed, but lack of detail on data type/volume and absence of proof artifacts listed prevents higher confidence. Company handles significant financial and real estate assets, suggesting moderate sensitivity if breached.

The threat actor claims to have accessed and exfiltrated data from AWJ Holding but does not specify the nature, volume, or sensitivity of the data compromised in the available post excerpt.

medium

What the group claims

awjholding.com zoominfo.com/c/awj-holding-co/448239448 AWJ Holding Company is a prominent Saudi-based single-family office and investment firm established in 2016. Headquartered in Riyadh, the company specializes in real estate development, property management, and strategic investment management. It focuses on high-impact developments and operates dynamic subsidiaries across retail, hospitality, and infrastructure sectors.

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 778 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post August 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 21, 2026AWJ Holding listed by thegentlemenon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 778 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, AWJ Holding is reported in United Arab Emirates, a country with 42 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means AWJ Holding 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, aeCERT (United Arab Emirates), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • 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.