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Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) – Iran Desk

listed as Behind the Curtain: Full Details of Shin Bet’s Iran Desk Officers Released · Claimed by Handala · listed 4 months ago

4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 25, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Handala
Status
Data leaked
Country
Israel
Listed on leak site
Mar 25, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Shin Bet (Shabak), formally the Israel Security Agency, is Israel's internal security and counter-intelligence service. Its Iran Desk is a dedicated operational unit responsible for monitoring and countering Iranian intelligence activities and threats. The organisation operates under direct oversight of the Israeli Prime Minister.

Industry
National Intelligence & Internal Security
Founded
1948

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The claimed exposure of the identities of active intelligence officers from a national security agency constitutes a critical disclosure: it endangers personal safety, risks ongoing operations, and represents the most sensitive category of government/national-security PII imaginable.

The group Handala claims to have exfiltrated the personal details and identifying information of approximately 50 senior officers assigned to Shin Bet's Iran Desk, publishing their names and associated data publicly.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Names of ~50 senior Shin Bet Iran Desk officers
  • Officer identification/personnel numbers
  • Potentially personal contact or operational details

What the group claims

In the silence of the night, the communication lines of the Zionist regime are no longer calm. You don’t hear the sound of our footsteps, but you feel our presence; just as now, the names of 50 senior officers from your Iran desk are on our list: numbers that are no longer just for work…

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 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 25, 2026Behind the Curtain: Full Details of Shin Bet’s Iran Desk Officers Released 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, Behind the Curtain: Full Details of Shin Bet’s Iran Desk Officers Released is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Handala means Behind the Curtain: Full Details of Shin Bet’s Iran Desk Officers Released 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.