Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’

A series of high-impact cyber events: a rapidly growing ransomware gang known as “The Gentlemen” has become the second-most active group by victim count, using an aggressive affiliate model (promising up to 90% of ransoms). Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed nearly 200 flaws (including ~36 rated critical) with at least three bugs seeing public exploit code. Attackers abused Meta’s AI support assistant to hijack Instagram accounts, while Dutch law enforcement seized ~800 servers and arrested two operators accused of aiding Russian cyberoperations. A major breach at CISA occurred after a