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Illustrative: An Iranian propaganda website displayed on a mobile phone, March 18, 2026. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 19, 2026, 9:27 pm
Authorities warn Israelis of phishing attempt in fake Home Front Command messages
SMS with purported link to bomb shelter app is in fact an effort to steal personal information, National Cyber Directorate cautions
By ToI Staff
An online store selling counterfeit merchandise identified with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.(Courtesy)
October 23, 2025, 7:38 pm
Hostages Forum warns of online fraud schemes exploiting goodwill of supporters
Group supporting hostages’ families together with BrandShield have clamped down on over 1,000 fake product listings and phishing scams stealing donations
By Sharon Wrobel
Team at Israeli-founded startup Linx Security. (Netanel Tobias)
July 22, 2024, 10:22 pm
Backed by Wiz founders, Tel Aviv-founded startup emerges from stealth with $33m
Linx Security, founded by graduates of elite military intelligence unit 8200, has built a platform to help businesses manage and track identities across their digital assets
By Sharon Wrobel
This handout photo, published by the Shin Bet security agency on July 30, 2023, shows messages on LinkedIn between alleged Iranian operatives and Israeli targets. (Shin Bet)
July 30, 2023, 10:12 pm
Iranians tried to hack state employees and researchers, Shin Bet says
Security agency says operatives contacted Israelis via LinkedIn and email, sent infected documents that would hand them control of targets’ computers
By Emanuel Fabian
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)
June 14, 2022, 1:59 pm
Iranian phishing attack said to target top Israeli officials, former US ambassador
Cyber firm Check Point says ex-foreign minister Tzipi Livni, former IDF major general among targets; attackers tried, and sometimes managed, to gain control of email accounts
By Michael Bachner
This screenshot shows the apparent malicious message, widely disturbed on the WhatsApp messaging platform, December 29, 2021. (Screenshot: Channel 12)
December 30, 2021, 6:02 pm
Cyber authority warns Israelis of widely distributed WhatsApp message hack
Apparent phishing attempt, via a link to join a group on the messaging app, said to have originated from several countries
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
June 10, 2020, 8:57 pm
Israeli held in US for ties to massive hacking-for-hire operation
Private investigator Aviram Azari has been indicted in New York for suspected links to global online criminal campaign, The New York Times reports
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image of a computer hacker using a smartphone. (stevanovicigor; iStock by Getty Images)
April 20, 2020, 4:54 pm
Scammer alert: Israeli cybersecurity firm warns COVID-19 phishing attacks rising
Check Point reports large number of new website registrations, many of which are disguised to look like those of government agencies providing financial relief
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image of a computer hacker using a smartphone. (stevanovicigor; iStock by Getty Images)
March 26, 2020, 12:26 am
Hackers exploiting remote workers amid coronavirus crisis, cyber authority warns
As much of Israeli public works from home, officials say criminals are using telephone ‘phishing’ attacks to try to access company login credentials
By Luke Tress
Anti-government protesters chant slogans against the regime in Cairo, Egypt, September 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
October 3, 2019, 4:35 pm
Israeli firm traces cyberattacks on Egyptian activists to Cairo government
Check Point Software Technologies says major hacking campaign targeting opposition figures, journalists and academics run out of Egyptian spy shop
By ToI Staff
This Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 file photo shows the website for British investigative group Bellingcat with one of the two suspects in the March poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
July 28, 2019, 5:59 am
Sophisticated phishing attack targets reporters investigating Kremlin
Journalists from Bellingcat, which uncovered Russian agents who poisoned spy, say hackers tried to steal ProtonMail credentials, urge Switzerland to investigate
By Ben Simon
This undated photo provided by the US Air Force shows an X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (US Air Force via AP)
February 7, 2018, 12:49 pm
Russian hackers exploit weakness in US cyber defense
Group known as ‘Fancy Bears’ targets dozens of employees working on secret projects including drones, missiles, stealth fighter jets, cloud-computing platforms
By JEFF DONN, Desmond Butler and Raphael Satter
Illustrative photo of a cybersecurity expert (AP/John Minchillo)
January 5, 2016, 10:08 pm
IT experts say Ukraine blackout caused by a cyberattack
Kiev claims malware resposible for a computer virus that shut down networks of local electrical grids last month
By AFP
Illustrative image of a hacker.(Shutterstock)
August 27, 2015, 9:41 pm
Report links sophisticated hacking scheme to Iran
Dissidents targeted with text messages and phishing attacks trying to breach their Gmail accounts
By AP
An IDF C4I Corps soldier monitors for hacker activity (Photo credit: Courtesy)
August 13, 2015, 6:41 pm
Official: Iran, Hamas conduct cyber-attacks against Israel
The IDF is reorganizing its cyber-defense system to meet a slew of unprecedented challenges
By David Shamah
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