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Hamas has been caught taking a classic "Catfish" approach, to tempt Israeli soldiers into installing spyware on their phones. The IDF told the Times of Israel that the idea was to catch male targets' attention, strike up a rapport and eventually lure the soldiers into installing a special app on their phones.
JERUSALEM - The Israeli military on Sunday said it has thwarted an attempt by the Hamas militant group to hack soldiers' phones by posing as young, attractive women on social media, striking up friendships and persuading them into downloading malware. Jonathan Conricus told reporters that the phones of dozens of soldiers had been infected in recent months, although he said the army detected the scam early on and prevented any major secrets from reaching the Islamic militant group.
Israel's entire voter registration database - comprising close to 6.5 million people - was exposed to the internet because of an elementary coding flaw in an election application, according to an Israeli developer. Bar-Zik, who was tipped off to the vulnerability by a source, also wrote a separate blog post describing the coding error.
"Most of them are companies with between $5 million and $20 million in annual revenue, and are scaling up to the next level." The purpose of this new cybersecurity hub is to provide the ecosystem and help necessary for growth to $100 million or $200 million companies - and eventually perhaps to the next $1 billion cybersecurity business. "We already have the biggest cybersecurity hub in Israel," he said, "Where we continue to invest in and help create many of the new 'ex-8200' cybersecurity startups, and we help these companies grow in the U.S. or Europe. So, we have experience in this."
Cyprus on Thursday arrested three people in connection with an alleged Israeli-owned "spy van" equipped with sophisticated surveillance technology capable of hacking communications, police said. read more
Researchers uncovers “ultimate man-in-the-middle attack” that used an elaborate spoofing campaign to fool a Chinese VC firm and rip off an emerging business.
Israeli spyware company NSO Group is accused by WhatsApp of cyberespionage targeting journalists, lawyers, human rights activists and others on the Facebook-owned messaging service. - Pocket spy -...
Finally, for the very first time, an encrypted messaging service provider is taking legal action against a private entity that has carried out malicious attacks against its users. Facebook filed a...
WhatsApp on Tuesday sued Israeli technology firm NSO Group, accusing it of using the Facebook-owned messaging service to conduct cyberespionage on journalists, human rights activists and others. read more
President Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denied a media report that Israel spied on cell phones in the vicinity of the White House -- and President Donald Trump said he believed him. Speaking on a...