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A string of cyberattacks against Israeli private-sector energy, defense, and telecommunications organizations have been connected to a threat actor operating in Gaza. Microsoft is monitoring the campaign as Storm-1133 and provided information on it in its fourth annual Digital Defense Report. As action attributed to it has mostly impacted organizations thought to be antagonistic to Hamas, a Sunni terrorist group that is the de facto governing authority in the Gaza Strip, we think this entity works to serve the goals of Hamas," the business added. Organizations in the Israeli energy and defense industries as well as supporters of Fatah, a Palestinian nationalist and social democratic political party with its headquarters in the West Bank read more Gaza Linked Cyber Threat Actor Ta...

Technion University, the leading technology university in Israel, was attacked by a ransomware group going by the name of DarkBit. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, the nation's foremost center for technical research, was attacked by the previously unheard-of group DarkBit. Attackers are requesting 80 bitcoins (more than $1.7 million) from the university in order to return stolen data. Researchers at vx-underground and CyberIL were able to retrieve a ransom note that suggests the attackers may have political motivations given the message's references to the university's alleged offenses. When this article was written, the university's website was down. The university confirmed the incident and stated that Technion experts read the complete article Israel’s Technion unive...

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Gaza-Linked Cyber Threat Actor Targets Israeli Energy and Defense Sectors

Israel’s Technion university targeted with ransomware