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Aviram Bellaishe, vice president at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, says Israel must work harder to counter Iranian psychological influence attempts
44 government agencies, including key ministries, were targets of the ransomware attack, said an official from the communications ministry.
Pro-Palestinian hackers allege that after penetrating the Justice Ministry, they now possess 20 gigabytes of data, including nearly a quarter-million documents related to the Israeli military.
As part of the drill, both combat and cyber and technology forces deployed throughout the North, on every separate front, to simulate readiness for an all-out hybrid digital and kinetic war.
Since the beginning of the war, the intensity of cyberattacks against Israel is at least three times higher, and expands to even more sectors.
The new Lockbit darkweb site showed a gallery of company names, each attached to a countdown clock marking the deadline within which that company was required to pay ransom.
The US operation was meant to inhibit the Iranian ship’s ability to share intelligence with Houthi militants in Yemen.
The sanctions, announced in separate statements, represent Washington's latest efforts to punish Tehran, whose proxies in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Gaza have attacked US and Israeli targets.
Iran and Israel continue to wage a cyberwar in the shadows as a court orders the end of a gag order on the leak.