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'Anonymous' hacker campaign against Israeli sites causes minimal damage - so far

By JPOST.COM STAFF

APRIL 7, 2015 08:58

Cyber hackers affiliated with “Anonymous” attacked a number of Israeli web sites before dawn on Tuesday, with limited success.

Israeli cyber authorities have been advising civilian Internet sites on defensive steps they should take, ahead of a potential wave of cyber attacks threatened by hackers affiliated with Anonymous.

Unknown cyber hackers said in recent weeks that they will attempt to hack a number of Israeli websites on Tuesday.

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the National Cyber Defense Center, which is a part of the Prime Minister’s Office, are passing on tips to civilian Internet sites on how to defend themselves.

The Shin Bet is in charge of providing cyber defenses to areas of the Internet identified with critical infrastructure – sectors that have not been traditionally attacked by past waves of Anonymous attacks.

Anonymous has stated that it intends to target Israeli sites to protest the country’s policies toward the Palestinians.

The hackers claimed that they managed to temporarily shut down the official Knesset web site as well as the sites for the Israeli court system, yet the pages for these institutions continued to function normally as of this writing on Tuesday.

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