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Arrow & David's Sling Defense Program Personnel (Israel Ministry of Defense / Israel Aerospace Industries / Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)

listed as Targets Locked: The Minds Behind Arrow and David’s Sling Are Revealed · Claimed by Handala · listed 8 months ago

$30.000
Ransom
demanded
7m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 13, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Handala
Status
Data leaked
Country
Israel
Listed on leak site
Dec 13, 2025
Ransom demanded
$30.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The targets are not a single company but rather the principal engineers and architects behind Israel's Arrow and David's Sling ballistic missile and air defense systems. These programs are developed through collaboration between the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, representing core components of Israel's layered national air defense architecture.

Industry
Defense Systems & Missile Defense

Attack summary

Severity: critical — This is a targeted doxing of named individuals working on classified national defense programs (missile defense systems), combined with a financial bounty incentivizing further harm to those individuals. This constitutes a critical threat involving national security personnel, potential facilitation of physical harm, and exposure of sensitive defense program human capital.

Handala claims to have de-anonymized and publicly exposed the identities of 13 key engineers behind Israel's Arrow and David's Sling defense systems, publishing their names as part of a targeted doxing operation. The group is offering a $30,000 reward for additional information on the named individuals, indicating an intent to facilitate further targeting.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Full names of 13 defense program engineers
  • Personal identifying information of defense personnel
  • Organizational affiliations of missile defense architects

What the group claims

Once again, Handala RedWanted has shattered the illusion of security within the Zionist regime. This week, we have unveiled the names of 13 principal architects behind the ‘Arrow’ and ‘David’s Sling’ defense systems, individuals once believed to be shadows, now fully exposed to the world. A reward of $30,000 awaits anyone who provides valuable information…

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 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

  • December 13, 2025Targets Locked: The Minds Behind Arrow and David’s Sling Are Revealed listed by Handalaon the group's public leak site
Ransom demanded
$30.000

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, Targets Locked: The Minds Behind Arrow and David’s Sling Are Revealed is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Handala means Targets Locked: The Minds Behind Arrow and David’s Sling Are Revealed 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 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.