Argentina Among The Gentlemen’s Victims

The Gentlemen appeared in July among the ransomware groups with victims in Argentina, according to Bitdefender’s August 2026 Threat Debrief, which recorded 21 country-based victims also attributed to Qilin and DragonForce. The case adds to a string of reports placing the actor among the most active threats of 2026, with visible impact in South America and in sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, technology and professional services.

What do public panels show about its reach?

Open panels and threat intelligence reports agree that The Gentlemen has rapidly expanded its victim list. Tecknow News, citing Kaspersky, said the group surpassed 320 total victims and accelerated 240 attacks in just the first months of 2026. Mallory.ai placed it at 483 victims across 66 countries as of June 13, 2026, while Ransomware.live pushed the figure to 504, with geographic concentration in Southeast Asia, South America and Western Europe.

That volume also shows up in other time slices. Check Point Research said The Gentlemen increased its activity by 62% to 269 victims in the quarter and overtook Qilin in June by volume. Intel471, meanwhile, said the group publicly claimed breaches against more than 600 organizations in at least 80 countries.

Which sectors are most exposed?

Reports agree that the group is not focused on a single vertical. Lumu said its campaign targets critical infrastructure, manufacturing, healthcare, technology and energy, with more than 100 documented victims in manufacturing and agribusiness. The same advisory added that the group encrypts industrial control systems, production-line workstations and operational environments tied to ICS.

FortiGuard described a leak site in early 2026 with more than 200 organizations in over 50 countries and a target list that includes agriculture, business services, construction, consumer services, education, energy, finance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, media and internet, and law firms. Malware.news, in an analysis of the Americas, identified it as the most active actor in South America, responsible for roughly 22% of regional attacks and with 46 attributed incidents, 15 of them in Brazil.

What does the technical side say about its operation?

Available evidence points to a mature operation adapted to heterogeneous environments. RST Cloud cited a technical report that places the group’s emergence in July 2025 and its evolution into a public ransomware-as-a-service model. That same material mentions tools for Linux, ESXi, PsExec and Hyper-V, along with curve25519 and xchacha20, a combination that strengthens its ability to affect virtualized and multi-platform infrastructure.

Lumu added another relevant point for defensive detection. According to its analysis, The Gentlemen may have compromised more than 1,570 organizations worldwide, separating about 580 visible victims on public leak sites from a broader set exposed in a leaked database. That gap suggests substantial undercounting in open panels, which helps explain why public figures vary depending on the source consulted.