Tag: Hacking

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

The Israeli Cyber Unit, part of the State Prosecution Office, led the removal of a website belonging to the Black Shadow Iranian-affiliated hacking website after it targeted a number of Israeli websites, Walla reported on Thursday. “The removal of...