An hour before Hamas fired its first rockets, Israel was already under attack. AnonGhost, a pro-Palestinian hacker group, caused an alert to appear on the phone screens of thousands of Israelis. A harbinger of an impending nuclear attack. The group had managed to hack the government’s smartphone app “Red Alert”, which sends notifications every time a rocket is launched at Israel. A real slap in the face for a nation considered one of the world’s greatest IT powers. And he wasn’t the only one.
A few hours after the attack, Israel’s major government building was almost inaccessible. Pro-Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the attack. “The Israeli government is responsible for the bloodshed. In 2022, you supported the Ukrainian terrorist regime. You betrayed Russia. Today Killnet is officially informing. All government facilities in Israel will be under attack.” This is the message emerging in the Telegram group “We Are Killnet.”
An attack carried out via Ddos, an abbreviation that stands for “Distributed Denial of Service”. A technique that makes a website or network resource unusable by overloading it with requests.
The same type of attacks were used against other public sites, such as the Jerusalem Post newspaper, which was virtually unreachable on Sunday, October 8, the day Hamas attacked Israel.
The Jerusalem Post was the target of multiple cyber attacks this morning, causing our site to crash.
We will return soon and continue to be the most important source of information about Operation Iron Sword and Hamas’ bloody attacks. pic.twitter.com/6S2GOl6Wma
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) October 8, 2023
In this case, the action was claimed by a group called Anonymus Sudan, a cybercrime group believed by analysts to be closer to Russia than to the Anonymus collective or Sudan.
But not only that: Microsoft has reported in recent months how many hackers linked to Hamas have tried to infiltrate some of Israel’s strategic companies to spy, steal sensitive data and install malware on many government IT systems. Attacks have also recently been carried out using fake Linkedin profiles; terrorists posed as Israeli administrators and developers to contact victims of government organizations.
Meanwhile, a hacker group called “Ghosts of Palestine” invited hackers from around the world to attack public and private infrastructures in Israel and the United States.
But the targets of cyber attacks may soon be even higher. Iron Dome is the famous Israeli missile defense facility capable of intercepting medium and short-range missiles. The radar system can detect the trajectory and effects of relevant missile attacks. The system may “come into crisis” due to the abundance of missiles launched, a technique based on “saturation”, and perhaps cyber attacks. Although this scenario is currently considered unlikely by many analysts, it has been claimed by various hacker groups. Pro-Russian and pro-Iran: A sign that the war game is increasingly being played digitally as well.
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