{"id":238787,"date":"2026-06-12T03:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-gentlemen-ransomware-claims-478-victims-can-spread-like-a-worm"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:18:07","slug":"the-gentlemen-ransomware-claims-478-victims-can-spread-like-a-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-gentlemen-ransomware-claims-478-victims-can-spread-like-a-worm","title":{"rendered":"The Gentlemen Ransomware Claims 478 Victims, Can Spread Like a Worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-gentlemen-ransomware-claims-478-victims-can-spread-like-a-worm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe group actively tracks and evaluates modern vulnerabilities, including <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/cve-2024-55591\">CVE-2024\u201355591<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2025-32433\">CVE-2025\u201332433<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2025-33073\">CVE-2025\u201333073<\/a>, and combines them with technique-driven paths like backup and management-controller abuse and NTLM relay workflows, giving them a flexible exploitation pipeline,\u201d Check Point <a href=\"https:\/\/research.checkpoint.com\/2026\/thus-spoke-the-gentlemen\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not all. In March 2026, Hunt.io <a href=\"https:\/\/hunt.io\/blog\/thegentlemen-ransomware-toolkit-russian-proton66-server\">said<\/a> it discovered an open directory hosted at \u201c176.120.22[.]127:80\u201d on the Russian bulletproof hosting provider <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/06\/blind-eagle-uses-proton66-hosting-for.html\">Proton66<\/a> that exposed 126 files containing a complete ransomware operator toolkit attributed to a The Gentlemen RaaS affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>This included tools for reconnaissance, privilege escalation, defense evasion, credential theft, lateral movement, persistence, and pre-encryption preparation, essentially spanning all phases of the intrusion lifecycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe group actively tracks and evaluates modern vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024\u201355591, CVE-2025\u201332433, and CVE-2025\u201333073, and combines them with technique-driven paths like backup and management-controller abuse and NTLM relay workflows, giving them a flexible exploitation pipeline,\u201d Check Point said. That\u2019s not all. In March 2026, Hunt.io said it discovered an open directory hosted at \u201c176.120.22[.]127:80\u201d on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}