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Delek Group

listed as Israel’s fuel supply system Data · Claimed by Handala · listed 1 year ago

2 TB
Data size
13m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 15, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Handala
Status
Data leaked
Country
Israel
Sector
Energy
Listed on leak site
Jun 15, 2025
Data size
2 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Delek Group is a major Israeli fuel supply and petroleum distribution operator. The group operates fuel stations and manages critical energy infrastructure serving Israel's transportation and aviation sectors.

Industry
Energy & Fuel Distribution

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Claimed exfiltration of 2 TB from critical national fuel infrastructure serving transportation and military/aviation sectors; Israeli energy supply is strategically sensitive; classified data reportedly involved.

The Handala group claims to have compromised Delek's fuel supply systems and exfiltrated approximately 2 terabytes of data, including classified information related to fuel station operations and infrastructure.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • fuel system operational data
  • infrastructure documentation
  • classified government/military fuel supply records
  • fuel station network details

What the group claims

Delkol and Delek have been compromised Your fuel systems are exposed. and so are your secrets. Over 2 terabytes of classified data are no longer in your hands. Your fuel stations are vulnerable. If you’re smart, you’ll act now. Fuel up immediately , before you’re left with nothing but empty roads and silent jets. Time…

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year 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

  • June 15, 2025Israel’s fuel supply system Data listed by Handalaon the group's public leak site
Data size
2 TB

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 Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Israel’s fuel supply system Data is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Handala means Israel’s fuel supply system Data 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.