JERUSALEM, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Israel held a national defense drill simulating a possible widespread cyber attack against the country, the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) said in a statement on Tuesday. The exercise, which took place on Monday, was led by the INCD and the Defense ...
The announcement of the cyberattack against the Iranian bank came about a day after Iran warned that part of its response to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh would include cyberattacks against national infrastructure in Israel. An anti-Israel billboard is seen next to the Iranian flag during a...
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There is almost no tool worth "saving for later" to improve the country's cyber capabilities now, as Israel is threatened not only by greedy hackers but also byenemy states and terrorist organizations. The possibility of a coordinated and massive cyberattack by hackers is as dangerous as any ...
While Unna tiptoed around the issue of attributing the attack to Iran at an official level, he noted Fox News’s accusation against Iran and made it clear Israel was hacked by an enemy nation-state and not mere cyber criminals. “It is not a gang... they gain nothing from it, no rans...
JERUSALEM, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) on Thursday warned that thousands of Israeli organizations are exposed to cyberattacks due to two critical vulnerabilities recently discovered. The INCD said in a statement that the vulnerabilities were found in a VPN remo...
Lior Tabansky, a cybersecurity expert at Israel's Tel Aviv University, said that in the murky world of cybersecurity, it's often difficult to separate genuine claims of responsibility from false flags. If it was indeed a cyberattack, suspicion would likely fall on Israel or the United States...
In fact, this type of attack is very common in modern war and espionage, such as in the Israel-Hamas war. A Trojan Horse is simply the method in which the attacker infiltrates a network or computer, but there are many different types of Trojan viruses: Backdoor trojans: Allows the ...
A 2014 attack against entertainment company Sony compromised both personal data and corporate intellectual property -- including yet-to-be-released films -- with U.S. officials blaming North Korea for the hack. eBay announced in May 2014that hackers used employee credentials to collect the personal...
“Cyber winter is coming and coming even faster than I suspected,” Yigal Unna, the head of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate told a conference last week, without mentioning Iran’s alleged role in the suspected attack on the water station. “We are just seeing the beginning — we will ...