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emalon

listed as emalon.co.il · Claimed by Malekteam · listed 2 years ago

27m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 5, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Israel
Listed on leak site
Apr 5, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

emalon (אימלון in Hebrew) is an Israeli travel services company offering package tours, accommodations, and travel arrangements domestically and internationally. The site provides booking services for various destinations and tour options.

Industry
Travel & Tourism

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Claimed exfiltration of customer and booking data (potentially including PII and payment information), but no specific proof files or screenshots provided in the post. The announcement itself lacks concrete evidence or operational impact details.

Malek team claims to have hacked emalon.co.il and exfiltrated all data. The group claims 'MALEK TEAM DESTROYED ALL DATA' and 'MALEK TEAM has everything', suggesting both encryption and data theft.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • customer personal information
  • booking records
  • payment information
  • travel itineraries
  • contact details

What the group claims

🔥Malek team in the newest cyber attack to Israeli sites, recently hacked emalon.co.il. "emalon" in hebrew "אימלון" was an travelling site that hacked by "Malek team".🔥🔴 & MALEK TEAM DESTROYED ALL DATA 🔴🔥 MALEK TEAM has everything 🔪🩸

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About malekteam

malekteam is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and small-scale operations. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their limited scope of operations suggests they operate as an independent entity rather than part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. With only seven known victims documented to date, malekteam appears to focus their attacks primarily on targets in Israel and Switzerland, with a preference for business services and healthcare sectors, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and whether they employ data exfiltration tactics prior to encryption have not been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting, notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented in open-source intelligence reports from established security researchers. The group's current operational status remains unclear given the limited public documentation of their activities since their emergence in late 2023. The group has been linked to 7 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 24, 2023; most recent post April 5, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: malek team.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 5, 2024emalon.co.il listed by malekteamon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, emalon.co.il is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by malekteam means emalon.co.il 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 malekteam'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.