Collaborate Disseminate
The Israeli military has been posting grotesque videos of dead Palestinians on a racist Telegram channel. It’s typical for the ‘anything goes’ platform. Continue reading IDF Admits It Ran Gory Telegram Calling Palestinians ‘Roaches’ to be ‘Exterminated’
By Deeba Ahmed
Microsoft has warned that hackers linked to Iran are mainly targeting Office 365 clients in defense technology firms.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Iran-linked hackers hit Israeli, US and EU defense tech firm
Continue reading Iran-linked hackers hit Israeli, US and EU defense tech firm
Recently the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) sent a warning to all concerned about the efforts of Hamas to identify, contact, engage, socially engineer and then compromise IDF personnel. Surprise of surprises: Hamas had created a half-dozen personas, all … Continue reading Women of Hamas and Their Social Engineering Skills
By Waqas
The hackers posed as women to send out malware and receive crucial information about the device as well as controlling key functions of the phone.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hamas hackers posed as women to con IDF… Continue reading Hamas hackers posed as women to con IDF into downloading malware
It’s not the first time Israeli soldiers have been targeted with Hamas honeytraps to infect their smartphones with spyware.
Continue reading Teenage girls tempt Israeli soliders to install spyware for Hamas
Computer crime authorities in Israel have arrested two brothers in connection with a phishing campaign that spread over multiple years and the 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Two brothers arrested for Bitfinex hack and multi-year cryptocurrency phishing campaign
By Waqas
IDF blames Palestinian hackers for spying on its soldiers with
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hamas hacked smartphones of over 100 IDF soldiers
Continue reading Hamas hacked smartphones of over 100 IDF soldiers
By Waqas
We have reported time and again about the widespread malware
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Android malware on Play Store targeting Palestinians on Facebook
Continue reading Android malware on Play Store targeting Palestinians on Facebook
One year after a hacking campaign targeted Israeli Defense Force soldiers, the ViperRAT malware family returned to the Google Play Store, according to new research from the mobile security firm Lookout. ViperRAT made waves last year after a wave of IDF personnel fell victim to social engineering attacks from hackers posing as young women, who tricked the soldiers into installing third-party apps that copied files and spied on communications. The malware relatively disappeared after intense media coverage, but the new samples look even more sophisticated — so much so that they’ve snuck into the Google Play Store. It’s not clear who is being targeted or responsible for building the ViperRAT 2.0. The two ViperRAT malicious chat apps (called VokaChat and Chattak) in the Google Play Store were downloaded over 1,000 times before Lookout discovered and Google removed them. “The chat functionality of the apps, which in earlier ViperRAT samples did not function, […]
The post ViperRAT spyware resurfaces in Google Play Store appeared first on Cyberscoop.
Continue reading ViperRAT spyware resurfaces in Google Play Store
The Israeli military’s cyber units have a reputation as some of the world’s most effective. All of a sudden, that’s a problem. A reported shortage of combat troops is being exacerbated by Israeli draftees opting more and more for the IDF’s cybersecurity efforts instead of combat roles, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Friday. The IDF’s cyber roles are safe, prestigious postings that have been boosted by a deliberate and long-running public relations campaign from the government. “The IDF may need many more cyberexperts, but not in the numbers that the education system producing,” a senior officer in the Manpower Directorate told Haaretz. “We don’t need so many mathematicians and not every one of them has the characteristics that meet the needs of the intelligence branch, which often looks for other personal characteristics among the draftees for its units. Israeli society is struggling to accept this, and the army is portrayed as being deaf, […]
The post Young Israelis increasingly opt for cyber service and contribute to combat troop shortage appeared first on Cyberscoop.