Monday, June 15, 2009

Israel suffered massive cyber attack during Gaza offensive

"Hackers launched an unprecedented attack on Israel's Internet infrastructure during the January military offensive in the Gaza Strip, and briefly paralyzed government sites, government officials said last week.

The attack, which focused on government Web sites, was executed by at least half a million computers.

Due to its resemblance to the attack launched on Georgia on the eve of its war with Russia last summer, Israeli officials believe it may have been carried out by a criminal organization from the former Soviet Union, and paid for by Hamas or Hezbollah."
Haaretz

3 comments:

  1. I am sure they did it for free

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  2. Must have been a SECRET attack, seeing how nobody really noticed :)
     
    Tel Aviv Uni's computer was targeted, some services were a bit slow, but that's fairly usual anyhow.
     

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