Iran linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claim pager explosions linked to Israeli battery company
Back in May, I started tracking Handala, a hacktivist branded group expressing pro-Palestine views:
https://medium.com/media/8e57dca18a2af602b3beccdc5549dca0/href
Handala is word which is a prominent national symbol and personification of the Palestinian people.
Since May, the group has been attacking organisations in Israeli, and has followed a pattern of wiping victims, exfiltrating data and posting publicly — much like Cyber Toufan, who I covered prior:
Cyber Toufan goes Oprah mode, with free Linux system wipes of over 100 organisations
Their website and X account were both shut down prior to today, along with four different Telegram groups.
Today, Handala posted a statement on their Tor site, saying:
The facts of the last two days!
The operation of the last two days was a series of joint actions of the Mossad and Unit 8200 and a number of shell companies of the Zionist regime! Handala’s hackers, during extensive hacking in recent hours, were able to obtain very secret and confidential information from the operations of the past days, and all the documents will be published in the coming hours!
The summary of the operation is as follows:
* This supply chain attack has taken place by contaminating the batteries of Pagers devices with a special type of heat-sensitive explosive material in the country of origin of the producer!
* Batteries have been contaminated with these explosives by IIB ( Israeli Industrial Batteries ) company in Nahariya!
* Mossad was responsible for transporting contaminated batteries to the country of origin of the producer!
* Due to the sensitivity of explosives detection devices to these batteries and the need to move them in several countries, Mossad, in cooperation with vidisco shell company, has moved the menti
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