Sharjah National Oil Corporation

Sharjah National Oil Corporation was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to handala in March 2026. The organization, operating in the Energy sector in UAE, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.

handala operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.

Today, one of the UAE’s largest oil and gas giants, Sharjah National Oil Corporation, has fallen to a decisive blow from us, Handala Hack. Your critical infrastructure, the very heart of the region’s energy production and distribution, was dismantled in moments. Now, 1.3 terabytes of your most confidential financial data, oil contracts, project details, and…