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Members of IDF Unite 8200's operational arm training in the field. Sep 11 2012. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Israel ‘one of the world’s top cyber powers’

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Israel’s position as a cyber superpower places it in an exclusive club of world powers, despite having a population a little larger than New York City, according to former Israeli defense official Chuck Freilich. Freilich,...
IDF Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Gaby Portnoy, director general of the Israel National Cyber Directorate, holds a press conference with Israeli Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel (not pictured) in Tel Aviv, on May 2, 2022. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Israel National Cyber Directorate announces national ‘cyber-dome’

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Israel’s National Cyber Directorate is promoting the formation of a “cyber dome,” its director general said on Tuesday. Speaking at Tel Aviv University’s annual Cyber Week conference, Gaby Portnoy outlined the make-up of the dome,...
An illustration of a cyber attack. Credit: F8 studio/Shutterstock.

Iranian cyber-attackers trying, and so far failing, to create panic in Israel

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Iranian cyber-attackers targeting Israel have focused on trying to create panic; however, they have not activated advanced cyber-attack capabilities, say observers in Israel while cautioning that the hostile actors will continue to search for...
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Israel Aerospace Industries and Microsoft team up for cyber training

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Israel Aerospace Industries and Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service are teaming up to provide governments, academies, institutions of higher and enterprises around the world with cyber training, IAI announced on Thursday. IAI’s subsidiary Elta Systems...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the annual Cyber Week conference at Tel Aviv University, on July 21, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Iran ‘working systematically to build serious cyber-attack capabilities’

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Recent revelations about Iranian cyber-attack plots serve as the latest confirmation of how seriously Iran takes this arena, a leading Israeli cyber expert has said. On July 26, Sky News reported that classified documents from Iran “reveal...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, seen here on July 12, 2021, updated his French counterpart on an initial assessment of NSO Group. Source: Flash90

Israel tells France it is investigating NSO spyware allegations

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told his French counterpart Florence Parly in Paris on Wednesday that Israel was looking into allegations that spyware developed by Israeli company NSO Group was used against French President...
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Documents reveal Iranian plans for cyber attacks on Western targets

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Documents detailing the cyber activity of a covert Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unit and obtained by Sky News reveal Iran’s planned targets, with the unit focusing on targets in the United States, Britain and France in...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the annual Cyber Week conference at Tel Aviv University, on July 21, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Report: Israeli premier calls for ‘global defense shield’ against cyber threats

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called on Wednesday for the creation of a “global defense shield” against cyber attacks. Speaking at the annual Cyber Week conference at Tel Aviv University, said Bennet, “We have already...
Rafael unveils the Israeli Operational Technologies Cyber Consortium at the GISEC Global 2021 Cyber Security Expo in Dubai on June 1, 2021. Credit: Rafael Defense.

Israel’s Rafael defense firm unveils new consortium to provide cyber security in Dubai

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The world is waking up to the emerging threat of cyber-attacks, which can lead to physical damage and casualties, an Israeli defense company executive told JNS. “War is not just about missiles today, it is...
An illustration of a cyber attack. Credit: F8 studio/Shutterstock.

Report: Iran likely behind cyber attacks on Israeli supply chain companies

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Israeli companies are being targeted by a new wave of cyber attacks, and industry experts say Iran is the likely culprit, The Marker reported on Sunday. Recent incidents have included attacks on the Veritas logistics company and...