AirQ
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Full breach record for AirQ →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
airq-ad.com AirQ UAE drone manufacturer founded in 2021 in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, producing unmanned aerial systems fully in-house. It was started by Croatian entrepreneurs Dino Dedić as CEO and Igor Pongrac as CTO, who previously worked at Rimac Automobili, and has grown from 6 people to about 100 engineers. The flagship product is the Harara modular VTOL drone, carrying 6 kg of payload and flying up to 7 hours or 600 km in hybrid mode, with over 1000 test flights completed. Other products include the StingJet reusable jet target drone for air defense training and the world's first fully electric UAV launcher. The company is backed by Abu Dhabi institutions such as Tawazun Council and Masdar City Free Zone and runs real operations like medical blood sample delivery between hospitals. Its main strengths are full in-house composite production and dual defense plus commercial markets, while the main risks are its young age, ongoing aviation certification and dependence on UAE defense.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Oct 16, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
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Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.
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thegentlemen
According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.