Galil Engineering
thegentlemen listed this organization on its leak site on Oct 9, 2026.
- Listing date
- Oct 9, 2026
- Attack date
- Oct 6, 2026
Listing text
galileng.com zoominfo.com/c/galil-engineering/346973568 Galil Group (Y.W. Galil Engineering) is a private, family-owned EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) firm founded in 1984 by Yossi Weiss in Ramat Yishai, Israel, now run jointly by his three sons (Nimrod, Nitzan, and Or Weiss as Co-CEOs/Deputy CEO). It employs ~190–250 people (engineers, technicians, managers) with estimated annual revenue of $50–100M — fully self-funded with no external investors. Over 42 years, Galil has completed full turnkey industrial projects across 8+ countries (Israel, Romania, Croatia, Rwanda, Chile, Botswana, Canada, USA), spanning defense, energy, pharmaceuticals (Teva, Intel), petrochemicals, food, and microelectronics. Key projects include a 344 MW pumped storage plant, a 144 MW dual-fuel cogeneration station, Chile's Aconcagua desalination plant, and Israel's first-ever NGA gasification permit for an industrial site. The company offers 10+ in-house engineering disciplines
About the group
thegentlemen posted its first listing on Sep 9, 2025 and has listed 1,253 organizations to date.
The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.
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