Was Amos Spacecom hit by ransomware?

Amos Spacecom was listed by the Handala 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 Handala ransomware group?

Handala 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 Amos Spacecom breach?

Handala published data attributed to Amos Spacecom. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom)

listed as Amos Spacecom · Claimed by Handala · listed 10 months ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 27, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Handala
Status: Data leaked
Country: Israel
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 27, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) is an Israeli satellite operator and the owner/operator of the AMOS satellite network, providing communications services across multiple orbital positions. The company serves a broad customer base including military, governmental, security, and commercial clients via its fleet of geostationary satellites. Spacecom operates critical national infrastructure in the space communications domain for Israel and regional partners.

Industry: Satellite Communications & Space Technology

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of military, governmental, and national-security data from a critical space communications infrastructure operator. This constitutes confirmed (claimed) exfiltration of regulated and highly sensitive defence/government data at scale, targeting critical national infrastructure, warranting a critical classification.

Handala Hack claims to have fully breached Spacecom's infrastructure and exfiltrated all sensitive data stored and transmitted within it, explicitly including military, governmental, and security data associated with the AMOS satellite network. No ransom demand was stated and the status indicates data has been published.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Military communications data
Governmental data
Security/intelligence-related data
Satellite network infrastructure data
Transmitted and stored communications

What the group claims

We, the Handala Hack, have successfully breached the security systems of Spacecom (Space Communication Ltd.), the operator of the critical AMOS satellite network. Every piece of sensitive information, including military, governmental, and security data transmitted and stored within their infrastructure, is now fully in our possession. Spacecom’s AMOS satellites serve a wide array of functions,…

Sources

Leak posthttp://vmjfieomxhnfjba57sd6jjws2ogvowjgxhhfglsikqvvrnrajbmpxqqd.onion/?p=487

Source

Indexed 10 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

September 27, 2025Amos Spacecom 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:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,563 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Amos Spacecom is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Handala means Amos Spacecom 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.