Security News > 2023 > April > New DDoS attacks on Israel’s enterprises, infrastructure should be a wake-up call

Experts say the attacks demonstrate the risk that fairly unsophisticated attacks pose even to well-defended enterprises and that other countries should take notice and prepare.

Starting before the annual OpIsrael hacktivist assault on Israeli enterprises from April 6 to 9, Israel experienced recent attacks by Russian entities like Killnet and Anonymous Sudan, a cybersecurity bugbear for Israel this year.

While the damage was minimal and in most cases involved briefly hobbled systems and services, cybersecurity experts say that, because of their breadth and reach, the attacks should be taken seriously by countries less prepared than Israel for cyber attacks.

Justin Cappos, professor of computer science and engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, said the network provisioning needs to pay attention to any new group launching large-scale DDoS attacks.

Izrael said the combination of direct attacks by the Iranian government and indirect attacks by affiliated groups achieves two goals: keeping the provenance of the attacks very murky and making the attack seem bigger because the origin of the attacks is unclear.

"The success of this despite the full cyber might of Israel shows that there are always weak spots and ways to attack them. Surprisingly effective attacks are possible with fairly simple tools and that is a wake-up call for everyone."

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