Tag: Cyber Terrorism
Report: Iran likely behind cyber attacks on Israeli supply chain companies
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...
Israel must study and learn from prospective Russian cyber breach of US networks
Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, which is in charge of defending critical infrastructure, needs to study every detail of the massive suspected Russian cyber breach of 250 government and private-sector networks recently uncovered in the...
Iran ‘opened a Pandora’s box’ in cyber attack on Israeli water system
The Iranian cyber attack in early April on an Israeli water-treatment facility, designed to get computers to add too much chlorine to the Israeli water supply, represents a new phase in Iranian aggression, a former Israeli...
Hackers interrupt Eurovision broadcast with fake missile warning from Israeli military
Hackers interrupted the Eurovision Song Contest broadcast on the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (Kan) website Tuesday, streaming a fake Israel Defense Forces’ video message warning all viewers near the contest venue to immediately seek...
IDF cyber chief: Iran tried to hack missile-alert system
Iran tried to hack Israel’s missile-alert system more than a year ago, Israel Defense Forces’ Cyber Defense Division Commander Noam Sha’ar told Israel Hayom.
In an interview with Israel Hayom’s weekend magazine, Sha’ar says the cyber attack was...
America must prepare for escalation of Iranian cyber attacks, experts say
With renewed sanctions imposed on it by the United States, Iran may be poised to increase the frequency and destructiveness of its cyber-attacks, two experts warned in a paper published on Tuesday by the Foundation for...
‘Enemy cyber threat growing,’ warn security experts amid Hamas cyber attacks
The ability of Israel’s enemies to target civilians and members of the armed forces with cyber attacks is growing, security experts have warned.
In August, the Israeli ClearSky cyber-security company uncovered a Hamas phony and...
Pro-Palestinian hacker targets dozens of Israeli websites
Dozens of Israeli websites were breached Tuesday by a pro-Palestinian hacker known by his Twitter handle “Darkcoder.”
The hacker launched a distributed-denial-of-service attack to disrupt access to the websites of the Israeli cities of Eilat, Acre,...