Was Malia Group hit by ransomware?

Malia Group was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Lebanon), 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 Malia Group breach?

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

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Malia Group

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 6, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Lebanon
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Mar 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Malia Group is a Lebanese diversified conglomerate comprising 21 companies operating across 6 sectors: Industries, Consumer Goods Distribution, Technology & Management Solutions, Fashion, Engineering & Contracting, and Hospitality & Real Estate. With over 8 decades of history, the group holds 60 brands and partnerships with 50 multinationals, with a direct presence in Lebanon, Iraq, and the UAE. Key subsidiaries include Pharmaline (generic pharmaceutical manufacturing), Cosmaline (personal care and contract manufacturing), and MaliaTec (technology solutions).

Industry: Diversified Conglomerate (Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Goods, Technology, Fashion, Hospitality & Real Estate)
Address: Lebanon (headquarters); operations also in Iraq and UAE
Employees: 1000+

Attack summary

Severity: high — The status is marked 'data_published', indicating exfiltration and publication of data from a large, multi-sector conglomerate with subsidiaries in pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and technology — sectors likely holding significant PII, financial, and commercially sensitive data. However, the leak post content is unverifiable due to the bot-check wall, preventing confirmation of specific data types or volume.

The group 'thegentlemen' has listed Malia Group under a disclosed/data-published status, claiming to have compromised the company. The leak post itself is inaccessible (blocked by a bot-verification page), so specific claims about encryption, exfiltration scope, or data types cannot be independently confirmed from the post.

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What the group claims

maliagroup.com zoominfo.com/c/malia-group/347685476 Malia Group is a multifaceted organization comprising 21 companies that operate across six sectors, including consumer goods distribution, technology solutions, fashion, engineering and contracting, and hospitality and real estate. With a strong presence in Lebanon, Iraq, and the UAE, the group is committed to excellence in the creation, production, and timely delivery of goods and services. Over the past 80 years, Malia Group has built a portfolio of 60 brands and established partnerships with 50 leading multinationals, making it a preferred choice in the region. The company promotes cultural and social diversity while fostering an environment of transparency, empowerment, and innovation among its employees

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

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

Source

Indexed 3 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

March 6, 2026Malia Group 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Malia Group is reported in Lebanon, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Malia 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 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.