Was Galil Engineering hit by ransomware?

Galil Engineering was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Israel), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Galil Engineering breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Galil Engineering. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Galil Engineering

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Israel
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Galil Engineering (Galil Group) is a private, family-owned Israeli EPC firm founded in 1984 by Yossi Weiss and headquartered in Ramat Yishai. The company employs 190–250 people and has completed full-scale industrial projects across 8+ countries spanning defense, energy, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, food, and microelectronics sectors. It offers integrated in-house engineering disciplines including civil, process, mechanical, electrical, control, and IIoT solutions.

Industry: Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC)
Address: Choresh Alonimm 5, Ramat Yishai 3009500, Israel (HQ); Park Omer, Building 10, Omer 8496901, Israel (Southern branch)
Employees: 190-250
Founded: 1984

Attack summary

Severity: low — The disclosure lists the company name and website with no evidence of data exfiltration, proof files, or operational impact. The post is a listing announcement only, with no technical details of compromise or data inventory provided.

The leak post does not specify the nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or describe data theft. The group 'thegentlemen' has published the victim's name and domain on a disclosure site under 'data_published' status, but no technical details of compromise or data categories are stated.

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What the group claims

galileng.com zoominfo.com/c/galil-engineering/346973568 Galil Group (Y.W. Galil Engineering) is a private, family-owned EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) firm founded in 1984 by Yossi Weiss in Ramat Yishai, Israel, now run jointly by his three sons (Nimrod, Nitzan, and Or Weiss as Co-CEOs/Deputy CEO). It employs ~190–250 people (engineers, technicians, managers) with estimated annual revenue of $50–100M — fully self-funded with no external investors. Over 42 years, Galil has completed full turnkey industrial projects across 8+ countries (Israel, Romania, Croatia, Rwanda, Chile, Botswana, Canada, USA), spanning defense, energy, pharmaceuticals (Teva, Intel), petrochemicals, food, and microelectronics. Key projects include a 344 MW pumped storage plant, a 144 MW dual-fuel cogeneration station, Chile's Aconcagua desalination plant, and Israel's first-ever NGA gasification permit for an industrial site. The company offers 10+ in-house engineering disciplines

Sources

Victim sitegalileng.com

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 960 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

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Timeline of this disclosure

October 9, 2026Galil Engineering listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 960 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,699 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Galil Engineering is reported in Israel, a country with 42 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Galil Engineering 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 thegentlemen'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.