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Royal Thai Air Force

bd_b43e995b49bebcf9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 10, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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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.

Group activity: Government & DefenseDiscovered: 2026-10-10

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

rtaf.mi.th is the official portal of the Royal Thai Air Force, one of Asia's oldest air forces (founded November 2, 1913; independent since 1937), with ~46,000 personnel and 11 combat wings, now running a modern Odoo-based portal publishing financial reports, procurement plans, and White Papers on its "Unbeatable Air Force" roadmap to 2037. Its fleet spans 46 F-16s, 11 Gripen C/D, 13 F-5TH Super Tigris, Saab 340 Erieye AEW&C, C-130s, and a VIP fleet including an ex-Thai Airways A340-500. In July 2025 the RTAF fought its first combat since 1988 in the Thai-Cambodian border conflict, with its Gripens achieving the type's first-ever combat weapons launch. The centerpiece modernization is the Gripen E/F program: Thailand signed the $550M "Peace Burapha 1" contract in August 2025 — first in APAC — with deliveries from 2029 and 8 more jets sought toward a 12-aircraft squadron by 2037. Air Chief Marshal Seksan Kantha, the 31st commander since October 2025

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 10, 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.

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 2023-02-28

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.

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