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On September 15, 2026, the notorious ransomware group TheGentlemen claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against
Dang Invest Group (danginvestgroup.com), a significant player in Vietnam’s restaurant industry.
The group has threatened to release sensitive data if their demands are not met.
Incident Report
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Target | Dang Invest Group |
| Domain | danginvestgroup.com |
| Country | Vietnam |
| Attacking Group | TheGentlemen |
| Date Reported | September 15, 2026 |
| Threat Actor Statement | “danginvestgroup.com Dang Invest Group zech family restaurant group from Ostrava, founded in 1998 by Vietnamese immigrants — the force behind the country’s biggest Asian fast-food network: brands GUTY (‘Taste of Modern Asia’) — bánh mì, bao, rice bowls, Multifood (the original, 1998), Rakki Sushi, Tuk Tuk and Amart cafés, running 70+ company-owned outlets across Czechia, Slovakia and Germany, mostly on shopping-mall food courts, with a central kitchen and no franchise/PE money. The Vietnamese-diaspora ladder: one stall in 1998 → mall standard in the 2000s → sub-brands in the 2010s → three countries in the 2020s, with the GUTY trademark registered at EUIPO/UKIPO for future European expansion.” |
Recommended Security Actions
Ransomware attacks are increasingly targeting both enterprise and mid-sized organizations across all sectors. The following steps are critical to reduce impact and prevent future incidents:
- Monitor continuously: Use DeXpose’s dark web and infostealer monitoring platform to detect breached credentials, leaked databases, and threat actor chatter in near real-time—before damage spreads internally.
- Conduct a compromise assessment: Immediately initiate a full incident review to determine how attackers infiltrated your network, what data may have been exfiltrated, and whether any persistence mechanisms remain active.
- Validate your backups: Ensure that your backups are current, encrypted, and stored offline. Utilize immutable backup solutions to defend against ransomware encryption and deletion attempts.
- Apply threat intelligence: Integrate external threat feeds, including DeXpose-provided indicators of compromise (IOCs), into your SIEM or XDR platforms for real-time alerting and correlation.
- Harden employee defenses: Run phishing simulations and enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) across all access points. Attackers often exploit weak or reused credentials sourced from the dark web.
- Engage professional response teams: Involve cybersecurity incident response experts, threat analysts, and legal counsel before initiating any dialogue with ransomware groups or ransom brokers.
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Disclaimer
DeXpose does not engage in the exfiltration, hosting, redistribution, or purchase of stolen data. All breach information reported here is collected from publicly accessible dark web sources and threat intelligence platforms.
Our mission is to equip organizations with early-warning indicators, contextual threat insights, and actionable intelligence that help them secure their digital assets against evolving cyber threats.
Article Link: TheGentlemen Ransomware Attack on Dang Invest Group - DeXpose