Tahkout Group
tengu listed this organization on its leak site on Jan 28, 2026.
- Listing date
- Jan 28, 2026
- Attack date
- Jan 28, 2026
Listing text
Tahkout Group is a large Algerian group of companies (sometimes described as a business alliance) founded and run by Mahieddine Tahkout, a well-known Algerian businessman in the automotive, transport, real estate and industrial sectors.
About the group
tengu posted its first listing on Oct 23, 2025 and has listed 49 organizations to date.
Tengu is a RaaS operation first observed in October 2025, following a double-extortion model and using Living Off The Land Binaries (LOLBins) to blend malicious activity with normal admin traffic, primarily targeting consumer goods, real estate, automotive, healthcare, and IT sectors.
Learning center
What does this listing mean?
Ransomware groups move data out of the organization before encrypting systems and threaten to publish it if the ransom is not paid. This method is called double extortion.
The listing shows that the group claims to have targeted the organization. Whether the data was published is shown by the later status of the listing.
What should you do if your organization is listed on a leak site?
- Record the listing and any published sample files; do not visit the leak site from the corporate network.
- Isolate affected systems and preserve logs without deleting them.
- Determine which data left the organization; if personal data is involved, review notification obligations with your legal team.
- Make any decision about the ransom demand together with legal, management and incident response.
- Do not bring systems back online before the attacker’s entry point is closed.
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