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Josee Bendaaa-Guerrero Asociados

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 29, 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: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-09-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

guybendana.com Guy José Bendaña-Guerrero & Asociados (roots to 1907, Managua, Nicaragua) is the leading intellectual-property boutique in Nicaragua, specializing in trademarks, patents, industrial designs, copyright, plant varieties and anti-counterfeiting, plus corporate law, regulatory (sanitary registrations) and litigation. It traces its lineage over 100 years through three legal dynasties — founders Henry Caldera & Henry Caldera-Pallais (who secured Nicaragua's first Trademark Law in 1907 and co-founded ASIPI in 1964), then the Caldera generation, and since 1985 Dr. Guy José Bendaña-Guerrero (a former judge, law professor, author and ex-president of ANIPI) alongside his wife Blanca Aragón de Bendaña and their son Julián. Recognized as Nicaragua's top IP firm by Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and World Trademark Review 1000, it serves global pharmaceutical, technology, fashion and consumer-goods clients from its Bolonia district office in Managua. With 5–10 lawyers

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 29, 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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