last saturday, Israel He saw the bloody military operation initiated by. Hamas opened a painful hole in his system intelligence and in its military apparatus. The Jewish State responded by drowning Loop under a barrage of bombs and access to water, food, gasoline and electricity is cut off to the area. As clashes intensify in the streets, cyber activists and criminal groups around the world are coming together. war this is also played on the network.
In the early stages of renovation conflictat least a hundred groups started a wave cyber attacks According to the FalconFeedsio intelligence platform, it is against Israel’s infrastructure, but it is also against Palestine. Different companies cyber security note that in most cases these will be distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS For its English abbreviation), a method that consists of coordinating a series of requests that will crash the server.
Self-proclaimed ‘hacktivists’ —’hackers‘ and activists attacked Israel’s critical infrastructure, such as its banking and energy sectors. They managed to paralyze the media website ‘The Jerusalem Post’ on Sunday. Other pro-Palestinian groups such as AnonGhost claim to have stolen data and even hacked the Israeli alert service. missilesAlso known as Red Alert to send false alarm messages and cause panic among the public.
pro-Russian groups
Among those who announced their participation in the competition are Islamic groups that have been supporting the Palestinian cause for years. However, they also emphasize that hackers linked with Russia Like Killnet, UserSec or Anonymous Sudan. They have attacked governments and companies that oppose governments before. Kremlin After the invasion of Ukraine, they stepped up their criminal activities on the Internet.
Alex Leslie, a threat intelligence analyst at security company Recorded Future, explained to ‘Wired’ magazine: “The scope is international, but limited to pre-existing ideological blocs within ‘hacktivism’.”
dullness The methods by which these groups operate make it difficult to know the scope and ultimate motivation of the attacks. So, some may be trying to block access to strategic web services, while others may be announcing non-executed cyberattacks with the intention of inciting panic, spreading disinformation, or self-promotion. And positioning themselves in the middle of a conflict that attracts global attention can help them gain credibility.
Unequal cyber warfare
The conflict between Israel and Palestine in cyberspace is as or more asymmetrical than at the military or economic level. For decades, the Jewish State has supported a technology industry strongly linked to its security apparatus that has transformed it into a force in security matters. surveillance. So the Hebrew State is home to one-third of the world’s cybersecurity unicorns (emerging companies valued at $1 billion or more), according to the National Cyber Directorate.
This explains why the majority of actors launching cyber attacks from different corners of the planet are pro-Palestinian, given Hamas’ limited ability to operate online. The “total siege” launched by Israel on Gaza has already succeeded in cutting off the electricity in the region, thus the electricity connection has also been cut off. Internet.
Although the conflict has restarted activities in the region cyber spherelevel is even lower. “We’re not seeing true domestic malicious actors yet,” Rob Joyce, the National Security Agency’s cybersecurity director, said Monday (NSA), one of the United States intelligence services. The worst may be yet to come.