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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

cyberwar

Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert talks about Iran hacking techniques, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
October 15, 2024, 7:42 pm
Iran cyber attacks against Israel surged after Gaza war started, Microsoft reports
After Oct. 7, Iranians shifted focus from US and UAE, as half their assaults in war’s first 9 months targeted Israeli firms; Tehran also ran social media influence campaigns
By AFP and ToI Staff
A computer code is seen on displays in the office of Global Cyber Security Company Group-IB in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 25, 2017. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
March 1, 2022, 5:15 pm
Ukraine crisis unleashes cyber free-for-all, but no crippling Russian attacks yet
Kyiv marshals sympathetic volunteer hackers in collective global effort against Krelim, but Moscow remains the powerful cyber foe
By Alan Suderman and Frank Bajakk
An illustrative image of a hacker (Михаил Руденко; iStock by Getty Images)
November 17, 2021, 11:28 pm
Amid ongoing cyberwar, Iran uses new tactic: Doxing Israeli foes
In tacit threat, Tehran releases the name, photo and address of an Israeli cyber security expert who specializes in Iranian hacking efforts
By Judah Ari Gross
A worker leans against a gasoline pump that has been turned off, at a gas station in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, October 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
October 26, 2021, 3:10 pm
Iranian gas stations hit by outage in widespread cyberattack
Those trying to buy fuel receive a message reading ‘cyberattack 64411,’ mirroring July attack on country’s railroad system
By Agencies
Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert stands in front of a map of Iran as he speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking, on September 20, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)
January 4, 2020, 5:35 am
Iranian cyberattacks on US feared after Soleimani killing
Iran hackers among world’s most aggressive; could target manufacturing facilities, oil and gas plants, transit systems, experts say
By Frank Bajak
Illustrative image of conceptual cyber attack code. (DaLiu/iStock by Getty images)
May 17, 2019, 6:52 am
Iran claims to develop defense against Stuxnet-like attacks
Communications minister says Iranian scientists have created a firewall to block computer viruses from harming infrastructure, like bug that damaged nuclear centrifuges
By ToI Staff
In this February 8, 2018, file photo, the logo for Twitter is displayed above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
December 20, 2018, 6:24 pm
Twitter says it blocked 22 Hamas and Hezbollah accounts at Israel’s request
In new report, social networking giant says it suspended 205,156 accounts for promoting terrorism during first half of 2018, having flagged most of them itself
By Sue Surkes
US President Donald Trump (left) meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 10, 2017. (Russian Foreign Ministry via AP)
June 12, 2017, 2:35 pm
Trump’s Russian leak said to reveal Israeli cyber hack of IS bomb cell
NY Times claims US president blew the cover off an Israeli computer unit’s infiltration of terror group, which found it was planning to blow up airliners with exploding laptops
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
A woman walks past a television screen showing file footage of North Korea's missile launch at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, February 12, 2017. (AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)
March 4, 2017, 7:39 pm
Obama launched cyberwar to sabotage N. Korea missile program: report
Effort failed to make significant gains and US still cannot counter mounting threat from Pyongyang, New York Times reports
By AFP
Deborah Housen-Couriel
December 31, 2016, 1:50 pm
Deborah Housen-Couriel
Cyber-warfare comes of age
The ferocious US retaliation against Russia for meddling in elections is a watershed moment in cyber-diplomacy
Illustrative computer virus. (istock)
December 15, 2016, 4:53 pm
Mutually assured cyber destruction?
Op-ed: Experts say first the US, then some of the West’s enemies, have developed the capability to shut down entire countries at the flip of a switch
By David Horovitz
An Iranian security guard stands at the Maroun petrochemical plant at the Imam Khomeini port, southwestern Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)
September 22, 2016, 7:08 pm
Blazes at Iran petrochemical plants raise suspicions of cyberattack
Tehran insists recent fires at several oil complexes unrelated to hacking, but officials last month acknowledged malware infection
By Jon Gambrell
Cyber-attack (Shutterstock)
July 8, 2016, 12:45 am
‘Potential threat of cyberweapons is huge’
‘Zero Days’ filmmaker Alex Gibney calls Stuxnet virus that hit Iran’s nuclear program a sign of things to come
By BREE FOWLER
Image posted on a militant website on January 14, 2014, shows Islamic State fighters marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP/Militant Website)
April 27, 2016, 8:20 am
US Army launches cyber warfare on Islamic State
Baghdad-based general says military using ‘exquisite capabilities’ whose results are ‘very effective’
By AFP
Illustrative: computer security (cyber security image via Shutterstock)
November 5, 2015, 8:49 am
Iran said to step up cyber-attacks on US officials
American officials link spate of hacks to Tehran’s anti-normalization crackdown and arrests of Americans in Iran
By ToI Staff
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