Disclosure context

About qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,858 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 13, 2026Belz Institutions listed by qilinon 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, Belz Institutions is reported in IL, a country with 41 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.

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Belz Institutions

Claimed by qilin · listed 7 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 13, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: IL
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: May 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Belz Institutions is a Chassidic Jewish religious and charitable organization based in Israel, associated with the Belzer Rebbe and the broader Belz Chassidic movement. It operates Torah learning programs, outreach platforms, social services, and educational initiatives for the global Belz community. The organization maintains a presence in Israel and supports affiliated institutions worldwide.

Industry: Religious & Charitable Institutions (Chassidic Jewish Community Organization)
Address: Jerusalem, Israel

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is marked as published by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration. A religious/charitable institution likely holds donor PII, financial records, and community member personal data, which constitutes significant sensitive data exposure even if not regulated at the level of medical or government records.

The Qilin ransomware group claims to have attacked Belz Institutions and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the group's leak post is no longer accessible and no specific data volume or ransom demand was stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Organizational records
Donor/partner information
Community member data
Financial/giving records
Educational program data

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 7 days ago

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