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Threat actor Radwan Cyber Pal has published firearms licence documents and photo IDs on Telegram belonging to 5,000 Israelis.
A hacker or hacking group calling itself Radwan Cyber Pal has claimed to have successfully hacked Israel’s Ministry of National Security and has published the stolen data online.
The documents appear to relate to firearms licences held by 5,000 Israeli settlers. Each data set contains PDFs of several licence documents, complete with signatures, alongside scans of other documents and photo ID cards.
Most of the documents appear to be from within the last two years, and the photo IDs appear to be current. The documents are all in Hebrew and appear to be genuine.
Radwan Cyber Pal contacted Cyber Daily directly today, 11 November, and the threat actor’s Telegram page was created on the same day.
Despite this, there have been scattered reports of the hack on several accounts on Instagram and X six days ago on 5 November, but no other details were provided.
Radwan Cyber Pal’s Telegram page is written largely in Arabic, and the first post is a common Quranic quote popular with many pro-Palestinian groups, such as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Speaking of the hack itself, Radwan Cyber Pal said in English: “Following our victories in the field of the war with the genocidal regime, the Radwan Cyber Pal targeted Israel’s Ministry of National Security. We have the full data of the Occupation settlers and soldiers in addition to many confidential documents.”
“All armed occupiers are our legitimate targets. Leave our stolen lands and homes now.”
In a similar post in Arabic, the threat actor said: “We have a lot of complete data for the settlers and occupation soldiers, in addition to a lot of security documents.”
In a post with links to several large archived folders on an anonymous file hosting service, Radwan Cyber Pal claimed to be sharing the “full data of 5,000 Israeli settlers”.
This appears to be the first action of a threat group not widely seen in action before.
Cyber Daily has contacted the Ministry of National Security for comment.
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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