IDF reveals it foiled Islamic State attack against Australian airline

21 February 2018, 5:25 pm Edit

The IDF reveals its Military Intelligence Unit 8200 foiled an attack on an Australian airline planned by the Islamic State group last year.

“The unit provided exclusive intelligence that led to the prevention of an air attack by the Islamic State in 2017 against Australia,” a senior IDF officer says.

Ordinarily mum on the operations of its famed signals-intelligence unit — similar in its role to that of the US National Security Agency — the army also reveals it thwarted an Iranian cyber attack against Israeli public and private computer systems.

“This foiling was possible thanks to the close tracking of the Iranian network’s activities,” an IDF officer says on condition of anonymity.

— Judah Ari Gross