The biggest cyber attack in history on Israeli companies.
Israel’s cyber security organizations reported that in the past 2 months, the largest cyber attack on companies based in occupied Palestine has occurred.
Israel’s i24 News website reported today (December 20) that since the beginning of the war in Gaza, a hacker group has carried out the biggest cyber attacks against Israeli companies.
According to this website, according to cyber security organizations, more than 2,000 personal information leaks have been observed in the last two months, which is 10 times more than normal days.
I24 News mentioned the name of this hacker group as “Al-Tofan” and claimed that Iranian hackers are the operators of this group according to the report of Israel’s Channel 12, they have stolen a sea of information of several million Israelis from several companies. However, at times, several other hacker groups also participated in these cyber attacks.
This hacker group has managed to break into the systems of several companies that host websites and gain access to personal information belonging to a series of Israeli websites; So any database that is stolen often contains customers’ emails, names, addresses, phone numbers, passwords, purchases, and sometimes private business transactions.
I24 News added: “According to estimates, the leaked information is “pure gold” according to the definition of the Internet world.”
On the 7th of December, the “Jerusalem Post” newspaper reported that the communication lines of the police, emergency, and fire brigades in the occupied territories were disabled following a cyber attack. According to the report of this Israeli newspaper, the devices that were targeted in this attack sent SMS numbers for the clients to use until the lines were fixed.
Critical Israeli institutions and organizations have been the target of massive cyber attacks many times. Gabi Portnoy, the head of the Israeli regime’s cyber security organization, announced late last year that they face dozens of cyber attacks every month.