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Office of the Israeli Prime Minister's Chief of Staff (Tzachi Braverman)

listed as Bibi Gate: The Gatekeeper’s Fall | Tzachi Braverman · Claimed by Handala · listed 7 months ago

7m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 28, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Handala
Status
Data leaked
Country
Israel
Listed on leak site
Dec 28, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Tzachi Braverman serves as the Chief of Staff to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, operating within the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel. In this capacity he manages access to Netanyahu's inner circle and handles highly sensitive governmental and security communications. The office is a central node in Israeli executive branch operations.

Industry
Government – Executive Office / Head of State Administration

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The claimed target is the Chief of Staff of a sitting head of government, placing this squarely in the government/defence category with likely exposure of classified or highly sensitive national-security-level information; data is stated as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration at the highest sensitivity tier.

The Handala group claims to have breached and exfiltrated data belonging to or associated with Tzachi Braverman, Netanyahu's Chief of Staff, as part of an operation dubbed 'Bibi Gate: The Gatekeeper's Fall,' asserting that all security layers protecting sensitive secrets entrusted to Braverman have been compromised. The post implies publication of exfiltrated data (disclosed status: data_published) targeting the highest levels of the Israeli executive office.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Sensitive government communications
  • Internal correspondence of Netanyahu's Chief of Staff
  • Potentially classified executive office documents
  • Personal and professional data linked to Tzachi Braverman
  • Information related to Netanyahu's inner circle

What the group claims

Bibi Gate Operation: The Gatekeeper’s Fall To Netanyahu’s inner circle, To every official still clutching the illusion of secrecy You feel it now: the tightening chest, the cold sweat, the gnawing dread. That’s not just fear, it’s the knowledge that every layer of your security, every secret entrusted to Tzachi Braverman, Netanyahu’s Chief of Staff,…

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 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

  • December 28, 2025Bibi Gate: The Gatekeeper’s Fall | Tzachi Braverman 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, Bibi Gate: The Gatekeeper’s Fall | Tzachi Braverman is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Handala means Bibi Gate: The Gatekeeper’s Fall | Tzachi Braverman 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.