60 websites targeted by cyberattacks, largest in years: Israeli media
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Israeli media say Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks disrupted a number of well-known Israeli websites.
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An Israeli occupation soldier in one of the occupation's intelligence units (Israeli occupation forces' spokesperson)
Israeli media reported on Sunday that the Anonymous Sudan hacker group carried out dozens of cyberattacks against the Israeli occupation over the weekend.
The Maariv newspaper said Anonymous Sudan, which plays an active role in cyberattacks against "Israel", carried out dozens of cyberattacks against Israeli websites.
On its part, "Israel" Hayom reported that Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks disrupted a number of well-known Israeli websites.
According to the news website, the hackers said they accessed some remote servers of two small companies and two water monitoring systems and published a military map of the so-called "Kissufim" region.
The website highlighted that during the two days that witnessed the commemoration of International Al-Quds Day, about 60 cyberattacks were reported, including the downing and sabotaging of websites.
It also cited reports about cameras and water monitoring systems being hacked and databases of small sites being seized.
"Israel" Hayom also cited the American-Israeli cyber security company, Check Point, as saying that "the scale of the attacks and their severity are greater than in previous years, and in some cases much more powerful tools were used than those seen in previous years."
Check Point attributed the cyberattacks to the Anonymous Sudan group, which allegedly works with the Russian Killnet and UserSec groups, adding that other Malaysian and Indonesian groups as well as some smaller groups were involved in the campaign.
A few days ago, Israeli media reported that the "Israel" Postal Company had been subjected to cyberattack attempts against its infrastructure, prompting the company to announce suspending part of its work systems in order to prevent similar attacks.
Similarly, Yossi Yehoshua, a military affairs analyst at Yedioth Ahronoth, revealed that the Israeli occupation was prepared for cyberattacks ahead of Al-Quds Day, noting that last week, the "Israel National Cyber Directorate" warned Israeli organizations against an increase in cyberattacks attempts. Last week, nearly 100 cyberattacks were recorded.
