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OTEGROUP

bd_9b4a6f4d24dc5c59 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 1, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for OTEGROUP

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: OtherDiscovered: 2026-08-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

OTE Group, founded in 1991, is one of Oman's leading business groups and part of Saad Bahwan Holding — a family-run enterprise and one of the oldest and largest privately owned business houses in Oman, with interests in over 15 industries and 30+ companies across the Gulf region.Starting as a small, one-franchise business, OTE Group has grown into a diversified powerhouse operating in 14 industries across 4 countries — Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Algeria — with 200+ customer touchpoints, and continued expansion underway.The group's core business spans automotive (exclusive distributor for brands like Cadillac, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Isuzu, Subaru, and GWM), electronics and home appliances, and polymer color concentrates for the plastics industry, alongside historical interests in auto parts, lubricants, tires, batteries, vehicle leasing, and vocational training. The company credits its growth to collaboration, cross-cultural understanding, and talent development.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Aug 1, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

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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