Executive Summary

God's Gladiators announced a third wave of its “Long Hands” operation and claimed to have carried out a disruptive action against the Center for Labor Studies and Research (CEIL), a CONICET research unit focused on social sciences and labor studies in Argentina.

The actor claims to have used newly deployed integrated systems to attack and “destroy” the institution’s infrastructure, once again framing the operation within its pressure campaign against Argentina over the foreign policy it attributes to the national government.

The images released alongside the claim show ceil-conicet.gov.ar returning a Proxy Error associated with the proxy server being unable to obtain a valid response from the upstream system. A second screenshot shows multiple checks from different geographic locations ending in connection timed out.

The disruption does not appear to be limited exclusively to the actor’s screenshots: an external check conducted on November 5 also recorded the domain as offline. This supports the assessment that there was an observable disruption affecting the web service contemporaneous with the claim.

Observable Disruption, Unproven Destruction

A proxy error indicates that the component receiving the request cannot properly obtain a response from the server or service behind it. A backend failure, network problems, configuration errors, overload, maintenance, or different types of incidents can produce similar symptoms.

For that reason, an inaccessible service does not by itself demonstrate compromised or destroyed infrastructure.

God's Gladiators also did not present, in the material observed, evidence of data deletion, administrative access, command execution, system modification, or any other element that would demonstrate the allegedly destructive scope it claims.

The actor’s reference to “newly deployed, integrated systems” likewise remains an unsupported assertion, with no technical evidence currently available to characterize the tools, infrastructure, or mechanisms involved.

The most defensible formulation is therefore narrower than the actor’s own claim: the website associated with CEIL shows an observable disruption that coincides temporally with a God's Gladiators claim, but causality and the alleged destructive component remain unproven.

“Long Hands” Attempts to Expand Its Scope Again

The publication becomes more relevant when placed within the sequence iQBlack has been tracking since September.

God's Gladiators initially positioned Argentina within an explicit narrative of political confrontation. It later identified the Municipality of Firmat and released material consistent with municipal administrative information, providing the first partial materialization of its earlier threats.

In October, the actor announced a second phase focused on major companies and strategic sectors. Initially, that expansion was supported mainly by claims and high-profile names; it later released a multi-company dataset that confirmed possession of structured information associated with numerous organizations, although it did not demonstrate direct compromises against each of them.

The so-called third wave now introduces a different variable.

Previous stages were dominated by threats, information exposure, and coercion through data. The new claim attempts to add service disruption and infrastructure destruction to the public repertoire of “Long Hands”.

That shift in narrative is relevant. Until now, much of the operational value demonstrated around “Long Hands” was information-centric: obtaining data, displaying fragments, threatening publication, and using exposure as a pressure mechanism.

The claim against CEIL introduces another equation: not only accessing or exposing information, but affecting the availability of the target itself.

Analytical Closing

The third wave of “Long Hands” preserves a pattern observed since the beginning of the campaign: God's Gladiators accompanies its operations with a political narrative directed against Argentina and uses each new publication to project capabilities beyond those previously demonstrated.

In this case, there is an important difference from a purely rhetorical threat: the targeted service does in fact show an observable disruption.

But there is an equally important limitation. The screenshots do not demonstrate that God's Gladiators caused the outage, much less that it destroyed CEIL infrastructure.

The disruption can be observed. The capability God's Gladiators is attempting to claim behind it still requires evidence.