Ransomware victim disclosure

$50M Reward For Trump & Netanyahu

Claimed by Handala · listed 3 months ago

$50M

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 25, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Handala
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Mar 25, 2026
Ransom demanded: $50M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

No legitimate company is identifiable from this post. The 'victim name' field contains a politically charged bounty announcement rather than a corporate entity name, and no business target is described.

Attack summary

Severity: low — There is no identifiable corporate victim, no stolen data, no encryption claim, and no operational disruption described. The post is a political/extremist announcement unrelated to a ransomware or data-breach incident.

The Handala Hack group published a post offering a $50 million reward for the elimination of named political figures; no ransomware attack, data exfiltration, or encryption of a company's systems is claimed.

low

What the group claims

$50M Reward For Trump & Netanyahu To all freedom seekers and justice warriors around the world: We, Handala Hack, hereby announce a $50 million reward for those heroes who can eliminate the main architects of oppression and corruption from the course of history. This substantial prize will be awarded, directly and securely, to any individual…

Sources

Leak posthttps://handala-team.to/50m-reward-for-trump-netanyahu/

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Handala

Handala is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in May 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain with potential geopolitical overtones given their targeting patterns. The group's country of origin remains unclear, though their focus on Israeli targets alongside Western nations suggests possible Middle Eastern connections or sympathies, and it is unknown whether they operate as a standalone group or utilize a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their rapid accumulation of 164 documented victims suggests they employ effective compromise techniques across multiple sectors including technology, government, energy, and healthcare organizations. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting victims in Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom, with additional activity observed in Iran and the UAE, indicating either opportunistic targeting or strategic selection based on geopolitical considerations. Given their recent emergence and continued victim acquisitions throughout 2024, Handala appears to remain active, though comprehensive technical analysis and law enforcement reporting on their operations remain limited due to their relatively short operational history. The group has been linked to 182 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 26, 2024; most recent post April 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 25, 2026$50M Reward For Trump & Netanyahu listed by Handalaon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $50M

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.