00:16Imagine stepping into an elevator in Tel Aviv.
00:19The display flickers, and instead of the floor number,
00:22you're staring at the face of a martyred military commander.
00:26Now multiply that across hundreds of screens, across an entire country, simultaneously.
00:33That's what a hacker group called Handala is claiming they just pulled off.
00:37Elevator displays, commercial advertising screens, public digital signage.
00:43According to Handala, they didn't just breach a database nobody sees.
00:47They broadcast it.
00:48They pushed images of the so-called resistance front
00:52and its martyred leadership onto civilian-facing screens
00:56in what looks like a calculated act of psychological warfare.
01:00And they didn't stop there.
01:02They directly invoked the IRGC commander-in-chief,
01:06Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and delivered a message.
01:09Painful blows in the cyber domain are no longer a threat.
01:13They are a reality.
01:15So, who are these people?
01:17Handala, also called the Handala Hack Team,
01:20has been on Western intelligence and cybersecurity radar since late 2023.
01:25They're widely assessed as a front, or proxy for Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the MOIS.
01:33But here's what makes them different from your typical state-sponsored group.
01:37They perform.
01:38Every operation is wrapped in propaganda.
01:42Doxing.
01:42Leak dumps.
01:43Website defacements with messages like,
01:46And this one is chilling.
01:47No need to learn Hebrew anymore.
01:50You won't need it for much longer.
01:51They've hit healthcare networks.
01:54Defense-linked firms.
01:55They've leaked patient data from major Israeli providers.
01:59And just hours before this latest screen hijacking claim,
02:02they published the alleged personal details of 69 Israeli naval officers,
02:08offering a $100,000 bounty per officer,
02:11framing it as payback for Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla.
02:16But this latest move, the screens, that's a different level.
02:20The message Handala is sending isn't just to the Israeli government,
02:24it's to Israeli society.
02:26We are inside your systems.
02:29We are everywhere.
02:30Now, a critical caveat.
02:32Independent verification of the full scale of this attack is not yet confirmed.
02:37Whether this is a full-scale cyber breakthrough,
02:40or a sophisticated influence operation, or both,
02:43the signal is clear.
02:45Cyber conflict in this region is no longer background noise.
02:49It's on the elevator screen, on your way to work.
02:52Handala wants you to feel that.
02:53And right now, a lot of people do.
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