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The pro-Russia hacker group NoName057(16) reportedly claimed it was behind Denial of Service attacks against the Finnish parliament's website on Tuesday, the day the country joined NATO. The country's Technical Research Centre of Finland was also hacked, according to Finnish news site, YLE. NoName057(16) is the same group that took responsibility for a distributed denial of service attack, taking down the website for the country's parliament last August, and who also attacked Ukraine, the U.S., Poland and other European countries. In a new study, Unveiling the New Threat Landscape, NetScout said that the U.S. national security sector experienced a 16,815% increase in DDoS attacks in the second half of 2022, many related to Killnet.
A new ransomware group going by the name 'DarkBit' has hit Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, one of Israel's leading research universities. The ransom note posted by DarkBit is littered with messaging protesting tech layoffs and promoting anti-Israel rhetoric, as well as the group demanding a $1.7 million payment.
A new ransomware group going by the name 'DarkBit' has hit Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, one of Israel's leading research universities. The ransom note posted by DarkBit is littered with messaging protesting tech layoffs and promoting anti-Israel rhetoric, as well as the group demanding a $1.7 million payment.
The social media conglomerate also took steps to disable accounts and block infrastructure operated by spyware vendors, including in China, Russia, Israel, the U.S. and India, that targeted individuals in about 200 countries. A second set of 250 accounts on Facebook and Instagram linked to another Israeli company called QuaDream was found "Engaged in a similar testing activity between their own fake accounts, targeting Android and iOS devices in what we assess to be an attempt to test capabilities to exfiltrate various types of data including messages, images, video and audio files, and geolocation."
Israeli fortifications in the West Bank are becoming a bit more faceless, as the military has reportedly deployed robotic turrets capable of firing stun grenades, less-than-lethal bullets, and tear gas at Palestinians protesting their presence. The remote-controlled auto guns were recently spotted at the Al-Aroub refugee camp in the southern West Bank, and in the city of Hebron, where locals speaking to the Associated Press told tales of weapons that fire without warning and frequently coat hillsides in tear gas.
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A hacktivist collective called GhostSec has claimed credit for compromising as many as 55 Berghof programmable logic controllers used by Israeli organizations as part of a "Free Palestine" campaign. "The group pivoted from their regular operations and started to target multiple Israeli companies, presumably gaining access to various IoT interfaces and ICS/SCADA systems, which led to possible disruptions," Cyberint noted on July 14.
Hackers continue to exploit the Log4j vulnerability in vulnerable applications, as shown by the Iranian 'MuddyWater' threat actor who was found targeting Israeli organizations using the SysAid software. The latest MuddyWater hacking campaign outlined in a Microsoft report yesterday constitutes the first example of leveraging vulnerable SysAid applications to breach corporate networks.
In a building under construction at the Advanced Technologies Park in Be'er Sheva, the "Cyber capital" of Israel, a new governmental lab is also taking shape: the National Cyber-Kinetic Lab for ICS and OT. A joint venture between the Israel Ministry of Energy and the Israel National Cyber Directorate, it will serve as a sandbox for testing computing devices embedded in physical processes and simulating cyber-attacks on scaled-down models of real-life industrial and critical infrastructure control systems. "The lab should be up and running in a couple of months and we plan to open it to the world in the second part of 2023," Dadi Gertler, Executive Director of Technology Systems within the Cyber Technology Unit at the INCD, told Help Net Security at Cyber Week in Tel Aviv last month.
The new head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate has announced the nation intends to build a "Cyber-Dome" - a national defense system to fend off digital attacks. Gaby Portnoy, director general of INCD, revealed plans for Cyber-Dome on Tuesday, delivering his first public speech since his appointment to the role in February.