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Yateem Group: A Legacy of Excellence

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 24, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Yateem Group: A Legacy of Excellence →2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blacknevas 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.

Group activity: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2025-10-29

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

500+ gigabytes and over 100,000+ files availableThe Yateem Group owns nearly 100 optical outlets in addition to many other brands and facilities. At its heart, the group retains the original family values set forth by the founders.A complete customer database with all contacts has been downloaded, including phones and emails of more than 9000000+ records, as well as all internal information on YateemGroup employees, passports, rights, work contracts and insurance.The IT department is aware of the leak, but has broken off negotiations, and customer and employee data is being prepared for publication.(ready to sell all databases without publishing)access was obtained thanks to the IT departments of these companies:Trojan Construction & Holding Group www.trojan.aeT. Choithram And Sons, LLC www.choithrams.com

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Apr 24, 2023

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.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

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.

Source ceiling

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-04-24

blacknevas

According to ransomware.live, BlackNevas is a ransomware group first observed in November 2024, believed to be derived from the Trigona ransomware family, targeting telecommunications, manufacturing, medical, and legal industries primarily in Asia-Pacific, the UK, Italy, and Lithuania using double-extortion with a dual AES/RSA encryption scheme.

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