Security News > 2022 > June > Israeli air raid sirens triggered in possible cyberattack

Air raid sirens sounded for over an hour in parts of Jerusalem and southern Israel on Sunday evening - but bombs never fell, leading some to blame Iran for compromising the alarms.

While the perpetrator remains unclear, Israel's National Cyber Directorate did say in a tweet that it suspected a cyberattack because the air raid sirens activated were municipality-owned public address systems, not Israel Defense Force alarms as originally believed.

"There is constant cyber activity against Israel. In terms of Israel working on increasing its cyber resilience, it is not in a bad place," the source commented.

Again, Iran hasn't been determined to be the culprit, and Israeli officials said they believed it was retaliation for an earlier alleged Israeli attack on an Iranian nuclear enrichment site.

The New York Times reported in November that Israel and Iran's cyberwar had recently begun bleeding into the civilian world; where once both parties would stick to government targets, recent campaigns believed to be coming from both sides have targeted and affected civilians.

A cyberattack last year on Iran's fuel infrastructure left the country without regular gas supplies for nearly two weeks, an attack against Israel's water system was prevented, and some Israeli LGBTQ people were outed after information was stolen from dating sites.

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