Ransomware victim disclosure

VahidOnline

listed as Who is VahidOnline? · Claimed by Handala · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 17, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Handala
Status: Data leaked
Country: IR
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Mar 17, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

VahidOnline is an Iranian online entity whose exact nature, products, or services cannot be determined from the available leak post or public site content. The victim name appears to be a personal or branded online presence based in Iran. No further verifiable details are available.

Attack summary

Severity: low — No verifiable proof files, no described data inventory, no stated operational impact, and the leak post contains only political messaging with no technical specifics about the attack or data at stake.

Handala claims to have compromised VahidOnline and published data, though the leak post excerpt is primarily political rhetoric and does not specify whether encryption or exfiltration occurred, nor does it describe the specific data stolen.

low

What the group claims

The crimes and foolishness of the leaders of the Epstein sect and the Kahanist sect have reached such a level that today, not only the elites and freedom-seekers of the world, but even Western governments and the masses of Jews, Christians, and Muslims have clearly drawn a line separating themselves from these two bloodthirsty…

Sources

Leak posthttps://handala-hack.to/who-is-vahidonline/

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 17, 2026Who is VahidOnline? listed by Handalaon the group's public leak site

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. Geographically, Who is VahidOnline? is reported in IR, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.