Israel
Massive Iran Cyber Attack on Israeli Websites
Operations of over a thousand websites or even more could have been disrupted in Israel due to a coordinated cyberattack launched by Iranian hackers on Thursday morning. And the highlight of this attack was that the home page of most of these websites was replaced with the following messages posted in English and the Hebrew […]
Israel Cyber Attack on Iran Port and Texas Transport Ransomware Attack
On May 9th of this year, computer systems at Iran’s Port of Shahid Rajaee were cyber-attacked disrupting the operations of the port for hours blocking down vessels and creating a traffic jam on the way to the port as thousands of goods delivery trucks were stranded in confusion. At that time, the Foreign Ministry […]
Israel Water Supply Authority hit by Cyber Attack
Israel’s Water Supply was reportedly hit by a coordinated cyberattack on Friday and Saturday (April 24th-25th 2020) of last week. However, reports are in that no noted damage to ‘Programmable Logic Controllers’ or compromise of systems was witnessed in the cyber incident. And as a precautionary measure, the water supplying company authorities changed their […]
Israel issues warning on AI Cyber Attacks
Israel government’s cyber intelligence wing has issued a warning on Tuesday saying that hackers could launch AI-powered cyber attacks which can help impersonate senior executives of multinational companies. In such attacks, often audio instructions are sent to employees working for a firm by impersonating the voice of the company head or the CEO/Founder. This malicious […]
Hackers install surveillance malware on WhatsApp installed Smartphones
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is back in news, but for all wrong reasons. The popular messaging platform is said to be allowing hackers to install surveillance software on phones and other devices triggering a major vulnerability threat among millions using the popular messaging platform. According to a report from Financial Times(FT), the threat was actually developed by […]
Air Strikes in retaliation to Cyber Attacks
Israel resorted to air strikes on a building located in Gaza Strip which the military forces claim to be housing Hamas Cyber Operatives. This was in retaliation to a cyber attack launched on Israel’s critical infrastructure last week this year. While there is no qualitative evidence that bomb attacks have really pinned down the Hamas […]
Israel to become a victim of Cyber Attack on April 7
A Hebrew based news resource Mako suggests that IT hub Israel could become a victim of an annual cyber attack which is reported to take place on April 7th of this year i.e on Sunday. The authenticity of this news is yet to be known. But the source suggests that the attack could also show […]
All about the secret Israeli cyber attack firm Candiru
We all know that Israel is a hub to a lot of IT technology and cybersecurity companies and startups. But can you believe that the region is also home to more than 120 companies which are into nefarious cyber activities? Well, these findings were revealed by a Tel Aviv based newspaper ‘The Marker’ which was […]
Iran says Israel launched Stuxnet 2.0 Cyber Attack
As United States 45th President pronounced new stringent sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, the latter has accused Israel of launching Stuxnet 2.0 Cyber Attack on its nationwide Telecommunication infrastructure. “The Zionist regime with its record of using cyberweapons such as Stuxnet Computer Virus to harm Iran’s Telecommunications Infrastructure was observed recently”, said Mohammad Javad Azari […]
Cyber Attack news for the day
1.) Edinburgh University online servers witnessed a disruption yesterday and sources report that the websites under the University’s online domain were crippled by a cyber attack during the freshers week. Jisc, the ISP of the said educational institution confirmed that there was indeed an attack on the organization’s domain. But failed to disclose any details […]
