Was gav.co.il hit by ransomware?

gav.co.il was listed by the malekteam ransomware operation (Israel), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the malekteam ransomware group?

malekteam is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the gav.co.il breach?

malekteam published data attributed to gav.co.il (~10 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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GAV Systems

listed as gav.co.il · Claimed by Malekteam · listed 3 years ago

10 TB

Data size

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 24, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Malekteam
Status: Data leaked
Country: Israel
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Dec 24, 2023
Data size: 10 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

GAV Systems is an Israeli technology services company offering IT outsourcing, managed services, software development, QA automation, consulting, HR/recruiting services, and digital transformation services to leading companies in Israel and abroad. The company emphasizes project management expertise, advanced technology, and human capital development.

Industry: Information Technology & Business Process Outsourcing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 10 TB of sensitive data including identity documents, financial records, and business information from a technology services company with access to multiple client systems. Large-scale PII and business data exposure.

Malekteam claims to have infiltrated GAV Systems' network, exfiltrated approximately 10 TB of data including identity documents, financial/administrative files, and project details, and destroyed additional information on the system.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Identity information and identification documents
Financial and administrative files
Project information and details

What the group claims

🔥🔥After infiltrating the network system of this site, we took the necessary access to it and transferred its useful data And at the end, we deleted part of the existing information. Some information transferred from the GAV site:Identity information and identification documents ☠️a large of financial and administrative files and documentsInformation and details of projects 🩸This amount of sensitive site information (about 10 terabytes) which was not worth transferring in terms of volume and time was deleted and destroyed 🔥

Sources

Victim sitegav.co.il
Leak posthttp://195.14.123.2/gav.html

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About malekteam

malekteam is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and small-scale operations. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their limited scope of operations suggests they operate as an independent entity rather than part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. With only seven known victims documented to date, malekteam appears to focus their attacks primarily on targets in Israel and Switzerland, with a preference for business services and healthcare sectors, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and whether they employ data exfiltration tactics prior to encryption have not been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting, notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented in open-source intelligence reports from established security researchers. The group's current operational status remains unclear given the limited public documentation of their activities since their emergence in late 2023. The group has been linked to 7 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 24, 2023; most recent post April 5, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: malek team.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 24, 2023gav.co.il listed by malekteamon the group's public leak site

Data size: 10 TB

Other recent disclosures by malekteam

malekteam has been linked to 7 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, gav.co.il is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by malekteam means gav.co.il appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-IL (Israel), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on malekteam's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.