Tag: Hacking
Hackers knock Aish.com offline in what group calls ‘delegitimization tactics’
A “denial of service” attack hit Aish.com on Tuesday, knocking it offline for five to 10 minutes.
Hackers launched their effort at 10:45 a.m. Israeli time and continued for six hours, generating 219 million requests...
UN claims antisemitic posts are due to employee account being hacked
In what reads like the plot of a thriller no one would write, the United Nations claims that an unknown party hacked an employee’s social-media account, posted Jew-hatred (including comparing Israelis to Nazis) and...
Shin Bet probes hack of Israeli President Herzog’s Telegram account
Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency is probing a hack of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s account on the Telegram messaging app, the President's Residence in Jerusalem announced on Thursday.
According to an initial investigation, the...
Hackers publish Israeli hospital records after cyberattack
A ransomware hacker group on Wednesday published patient data stolen from Israel's Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center.
The “Ragnar Locker” group followed through on a threat to release the sensitive information gathered in the cyberattack on the...
Cyberattack shutters Galilee farm water controllers
A cyberattack shut down some 10 water controllers in agricultural areas in Israel, temporarily stopping irrigation systems on affected farms on Sunday.
“You have been hacked, Down with Israel,” read a message on the controllers,...
Cyberattack crashes websites of Israeli universities
A coordinated cyberattack took down the websites of major Israeli universities on Tuesday.
A hacker group calling itself “Anonymous Sudan” claimed responsibility for the attack on its Telegram account, stating that the “Israel education sector...
Knesset website targeted by Russian hackers with alleged Kremlin ties
The Knesset website was targeted earlier this week by a Russian hacker group with alleged ties to the Kremlin, Channel 12 reported on Wednesday.
Staff at the Israeli legislature reportedly identified the breach overnight Sunday and quickly...
Report: Israeli hackers took down IRGC’s ‘Fars News’ website
A hardline Iranian media outlet connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Fars News Agency, has reportedly had its website hacked by Israeli hackers.
According to an opposition-linked website, Iran International, the hackers took responsibility for the...
Iranian hackers leak Mossad chief’s personal information
Iranian hackers on Wednesday published a video on an anonymous Telegram channel featuring personal photos and documents allegedly obtained from a phone used by the wife of Mossad Director David Barnea.
The video was posted on the...
Large-scale cyber attack on Israeli government sites likely by Iranian-aligned hackers
Multiple Israeli government websites that went offline on Monday evening were likely targeted in a large-scale cyber attack conducted by “Iranian-aligned hackers,” Ynet reported on Tuesday.
The report cited the Israel National Cyber Directorate as saying “the...