Israelis deal with cyber attack with an airstrike

Stefan Mileschin · 8th May 2019, 07:59

It did not stop at hacking back

Israel used real brute force to deal with a Hamas cyberattack. The IDF just carried out an air strike on the building where it thought the hackers were operating.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an air strike against a building in the Gaza Strip. They claimed it housed Hamas cyber operatives, which had been engaging in a cyber attack against Israel's "cyberspace".

The head of the IDF cyber defence unit claimed his team was ahead of the hackers all the time and failed. Israeli officials insisted that they first stopped the attack online, and only then responded with an air strike.

IDF spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Ronen Manlis said that Hamas now has no cyber operational capabilities.

In 2015, the US became the first country to respond with military force to cyber attacks, when it used a drone strike to kill Junaid Hussain, a British citizen who was in charge of ISIL's hacker groups, and who was responsible for dumping personal details of US military forces online, via Twitter.

However, Israel's response against Hamas marks the first time that a country has reacted with immediate military force to a cyber attack in an active conflict, in real-time, rather than wait months to plan an operation and respond. Hamas's one contribution to hacking has been simple stuff which messes with the IDF's drones, and hacking Apple apps, so we are not looking at causing a melt-down at a local powerplant.

https://fudzilla.com/news/48637-isra...h-an-airstrike

8th May 2019, 07:59	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,514	Israelis deal with cyber attack with an airstrike It did not stop at hacking back Israel used real brute force to deal with a Hamas cyberattack. The IDF just carried out an air strike on the building where it thought the hackers were operating. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an air strike against a building in the Gaza Strip. They claimed it housed Hamas cyber operatives, which had been engaging in a cyber attack against Israel's "cyberspace". The head of the IDF cyber defence unit claimed his team was ahead of the hackers all the time and failed. Israeli officials insisted that they first stopped the attack online, and only then responded with an air strike. IDF spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Ronen Manlis said that Hamas now has no cyber operational capabilities. In 2015, the US became the first country to respond with military force to cyber attacks, when it used a drone strike to kill Junaid Hussain, a British citizen who was in charge of ISIL's hacker groups, and who was responsible for dumping personal details of US military forces online, via Twitter. However, Israel's response against Hamas marks the first time that a country has reacted with immediate military force to a cyber attack in an active conflict, in real-time, rather than wait months to plan an operation and respond. Hamas's one contribution to hacking has been simple stuff which messes with the IDF's drones, and hacking Apple apps, so we are not looking at causing a melt-down at a local powerplant. https://fudzilla.com/news/48637-isra...h-an-airstrike

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