Arkın Group
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Full breach record for Arkın Group →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.
Source: Ransomware.live
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CYBERSECURITY: ARKIN HOTEL GROUP SUFFERS MASSIVE DATA BREACH — OVER 1 TB OF GUEST AND CASINO DATA STOLENCybersecurity experts from Cyclops Threat Intelligence have reported a critical incident affecting the Arkın Group hotel chain (www.arkingroup.com), including its premium properties The Arkın Colony, The Arkın Iskele, and Arkın Palm Beach in Northern Cyprus. According to preliminary assessments, the attackers managed to exfiltrate over one terabyte of internal documents, customer databases, and transaction logs, including confidential information from the Arkın Palm Beach Casino.▎Attack detailsAnalysts have established that the attackers gained initial access through a compromised employee account in the reservations department. Using legitimate remote administration tools, they gradually expanded their privileges, bypassed network segmentation, and exfiltrated a dataset totalling approximately 1.4 TB. Some of the stolen information has already surfaced on underground forums and darknet marketplaces.The stolen data includes:• Full guest profiles (passport details, phone numbers, addresses, stay history);• Financial details of bookings and payment credentials;• The internal CRM system with staff notes on VIP clients;• Casino database: player IDs, deposit amounts, visit frequency, records of chip exchange transactions and fund movements;• Scanned passports, compliance check forms (KYC/AML), including source-of-funds questionnaires for high rollers.▎Objective and likely operatorBased on the intrusion characteristics and tactics used, experts link the incident to the threat group “CryptoRex” (tracked since 2023), which specialises in attacking hospitality and gambling businesses in the Mediterranean region. A combination of financial extortion and data sale to multiple buyers is considered likely. So far, no official ransom demand has been received, but portions of the
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Jun 30, 2026
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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.