Jerusalem Water Supply Facilities
Attack Intelligence
Jerusalem Water Supply Facilities was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to handala in March 2026. The organization, operating in the Government sector in IL, 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.
In response to the blatant aggression against the Qeshm desalination plant, Handala Hack has executed an unprecedented and sophisticated cyber operation, targeting the water infrastructure of Jerusalem. In this assault, 423 gigabytes of highly classified and sensitive data were exfiltrated, and the core infrastructure was completely crippled. This was not merely a cyberattack, it was…