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Exposing Israel’s Drone Queen: The Fall of Colonel Haimovich

bd_7acaf994a79e8b50 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Apr 7, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Exposing Israel’s Drone Queen: The Fall of Colonel Haimovich

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Handala on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Not FoundDiscovered: 2026-04-08

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Ms. Vered Haimovich, Tonight, there’s nowhere left to hide; The shadows see everything, and it’s time for the truth to be revealed. You, a retired Air Force Colonel, now handpicked by Eyal Zamir, the IDF Chief of Staff, to lead the ultra-secret Squadron 166, are directly responsible for planning, directing, and executing drone operations against...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 7, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-05

handala

According to ransomware.live, Not a Ransomware Group

175 victims claimed globally175 tracked hereFull profile →