The Gentlemen Claims Four UAE Organisations Since February
The Gentlemen reached ninth place among 47 ransomware groups tracked against UAE targets without a single claim before February 2026. Half its claims fall in Transportation, an unusual concentration on a tracker where most groups spread thinly.
What happened
The Gentlemen has claimed 4 organisations in the United Arab Emirates during 2026. The group had no UAE record in any earlier period on this tracker. Its first claim was recorded on 6 February 2026 and its most recent on 20 June 2026.
That places The Gentlemen ninth among the 47 ransomware groups that have claimed a UAE organisation. It reached that position inside a single partial year.
Who is affected in the UAE
Transportation accounts for 2 of the 4 claims. Professional Services and Retail and E-Commerce account for 1 each.
The Transportation concentration is the detail worth noting. That sector holds 6 claims in total across the whole record, so The Gentlemen accounts for a third of it. Most groups on this tracker spread across sectors with one claim each.
How this compares
Transportation recorded 1 claim in 2023, 1 in 2024 and 1 in 2025. The partial year 2026 already stands at 3. The Gentlemen is responsible for 2 of those 3.
A sector that ran at roughly one claim a year has tripled inside an unfinished year. One new group drove most of that change.
What to do
- Establish whether you fall inside critical national infrastructure, because UAE IAS v2 then applies with 39 mandatory Priority One controls.
- Separate operational scheduling systems from corporate systems, since a shared credential turns an office incident into a logistics one.
- Review access held by customs, port and handling partners on the same cycle as your own staff.
- Define a manual fallback for dispatch, because vehicles and aircraft do not wait for system recovery.
- Treat the 2026 figure as live rather than final, since the year is still running.
Summary
The Gentlemen has claimed 4 UAE organisations in 2026, its first activity in the country on record. Transportation carries 2 of those claims, a third of that sector’s entire record. Claims are assertions published by attackers, not confirmed breaches.
