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Avraham Hayyim ( Mehrdad Rahimi ) – Mossad Agent

Claimed by Handala · listed 5 months ago

4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 18, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Handala
Status
Data leaked
Country
Israel
Listed on leak site
Jan 18, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

This leak post does not concern a company. The subject is identified as an individual — Mehrdad Rahimi (also named Avraham Hayyim) — alleged by the Handala group to be a Mossad officer serving as a guiding officer for Iranian agents on Mossad's Iran Desk. There is no corporate entity involved.

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosure constitutes a targeted dox of an alleged intelligence officer, exposing personal identity and alleged covert operational details. If accurate, this poses serious personal safety and national security implications, though it targets an individual rather than an organisation and no verified regulated data corpus is confirmed.

The Handala group claims to have exposed the personal identity, alias, and alleged operational role of an individual they identify as a Mossad intelligence officer. The post appears to be a doxing/personal data disclosure rather than a ransomware attack on a corporate target.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Full name and alias
  • Alleged intelligence role and affiliation
  • Alleged operational activities

What the group claims

Avraham Hayyim ( Mehrdad Rahimi ) |  (Guiding Officer of Iranian Agents in Mossad’s Iran Desk) Mehrdad Rahimi, serving as the guiding officer for Iranian agents within Mossad’s Iran Desk, attempted to play a major role in organizing and directing networks behind the unrest inside Iran. By managing and directing Iranian operatives, he sought to…

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 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

  • January 18, 2026Avraham Hayyim ( Mehrdad Rahimi ) – Mossad Agent listed by Handalaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Handala

Handala has been linked to 182 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Handala dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Avraham Hayyim ( Mehrdad Rahimi ) – Mossad Agent is reported in Israel, a country with 78 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Handala means Avraham Hayyim ( Mehrdad Rahimi ) – Mossad Agent 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Handala'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.

Avraham Hayyim ( Mehrdad Rahimi ) – Mossad Agent data breach — Handala ransomware leak (2026) · Darkfield