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SBK Real Estate

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Dec 13, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for SBK Real Estate

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group 8base 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: Not FoundDiscovered: 2023-12-13

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

SBK Group is a diversified group of companies under the ownership of H. H. Sheikh Suhail Bin Khalifa Saeed Al Maktoum has multifarious operations in Dubai and other emirates and the business activities of the Group include hotel, hotel apartments under the holding company Pearl Investment LLC, electronics, computers and computer accessories, garment retail outlets and Real Estate. The group annual turnover in UAE is estimated to be around AED 150 million. SBK Real Estate commenced operations in 1998 as an endeavor to tap the vast potential in property management market and other related segments of the real estate industry. From a small investment and an initial turnover of AED 1 million, the company today within a period of 12 years boasts of a whopping AED 50 million turnover. This growth within a short period is attributed to an unflinching commitment towards customer satisfaction resulting out of prompt and efficient facilities management on top of reasonable and competitive terms of tenancy. The company is one of the established organization in Dubai specializing in Leasing and Selling of commercial and residential properties coupled with experience in Comprehensive Property Management functions and services. sbkrealestate.com

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 13, 2023

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

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

About this groupFirst seen 2022-04-03

8base

According to ransomware.live, The 8base Ransomware group made its first appearance in early March 2022, remaining somewhat quiet after the attacks. This group operates like other ransomware actors, engaging in double extortion. However, in mid-May and June 2023, the ransomware operation saw a spike in activity against organizations from various sectors, listing 131 organizations in just 3 months. The 8base data leak site was created and made available in March 2023, claiming honesty and simplicity in its discourse. VMware published a report on 8base, drawing some similarities with the ransomware group `RansomHouse`, pointing out resemblances such as the website used by 8base and the ransom notes presented in its attacks. Interestingly, the 8base Ransomware group does not have its own ransomware developed by the group. Instead, the actors took advantage of other leaked ransomware builders to customize the ransom note and present it to the victim organization as 8base's operation. Source : https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs

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