The website of Yeshiva World News, the Orthodox Jewish news publication, was hacked on Wednesday, seemingly by Iran.
The website featured for a while the words “Now we are under their control. The Zionists are handcuffed” in Farsi, as well as an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looking on at Mojtaba Khamenei (son of Ali Khamenei), surrounded by regime paraphernalia.
By 2 p.m. ET, it appeared to be back up, with the website featuring the message "we will be back shortly."
The Jerusalem Post checked social media and Telegram channels associated with Iranian hackers but did not immediately find any groups taking responsibility.
A February 28 threat assessment produced by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security warned that the main concern was that Iran-aligned "hacktivists" would conduct low-level cyber attacks against US networks, such as website defacements and distributed denial-of-service attacks.
US, Israel targeted by Iran-linked cyber attacks
Last week, the US medical technology company Stryker, was targeted by a suspected Iran-linked cyberattack, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The company experienced a global outage across its systems, and staff and contractors have claimed that the logo of an Iran-linked hacking group has appeared on the login pages, the report said.
Since the start of Operation Roaring Lion, the Iran-linked hacker group Handala claimed to have hacked Clalit, Israel’s largest healthcare provider, as Israel's National Cyber Directorate said it had received a growing number of reports rom organizations across a range of sectors affected by incidents of this kind.
Reuters, Shir Perets, and Dr. Itay Gal contributed to this report.